Pépé le Moko (Tony Martin) leads a gang of jewel thieves in the Casbah district of Algiers, where he has exiled himself to escape imprisonment in his native France.

Against Slimane's advice, Police Chief Louvain (Thomas Gomez) captures Pépé in a dragnet, but his followers free him.

He was charged with buying a Navy officer a car to facilitate his obtaining a chief specialists rating.

[5] Erik Charrell was to produce, William Bowers was to write the script and Harold Arlen to do the music.

[2] Martin had to go to court again to argue (successfully) that he was entitled to claim his loss on the film as a tax deduction.