The film starred Jack Pickford in his last major role as "Clyde", a saxophone player whose love for a dancer named Flowers (Olive Borden) traps him in the middle of a gang war.

One night, he meets Flowers, and teaches her to dance, but finds that "Blackjack" (Eddie Gribbon), the leader of a ruthless gang, is also in love with her.

The film featured a theme song entitled "My Suppressed Desire" which was composed by Chester Conn and Ned Miller.

[5] In order to be able to advertise the film as a talkie, a spoken prologue was added, in which a group of reporters (including one played by Mabel Albertson) discuss the events that are to come.

In particular, the paper found the film to be rather cliché – it balked at the sentimentality of Blackjack's death scene and claimed the writers "would confer a favor upon a patient public if they mutinied against the use of some words, especially that simple monosyllable, 'well' ".