[1][2] The supporting cast features Rose Stradner, Lionel Stander and John Carradine.

During Prohibition, gangland kingpin Joe Krozac returns from Europe with a new wife, Talya, who is unaware of his criminal background.

Krozac is sent to Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary for ten years for income tax evasion before their son is born.

After Talya visits her husband with their child, reporter Paul North plays a dirty trick on her, putting a gun in the baby's hands for a photograph.

A protege of European director Max Reinhardt, Rose Stradner subsequently married writer/director Joseph L. Mankiewicz in 1939 and committed suicide in 1958 at age 45.