"A Famous Play.....Now A Great Picture!"
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his father. When gangsters try to buy a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.
Barbara Stanwyck
Lorna Moon
Adolphe Menjou
Tom Moody
William Holden
Joe Bonaparte
Lee J. Cobb
Mr. Bonaparte
Joseph Calleia
Eddie Fuseli
Sam Levene
Siggie
Edward Brophy
Roxy Lewis
Beatrice Blinn
Anna 'Duchess'
William H. Strauss
Mr. Carp
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his father. When gangsters try to buy a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.
The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ.
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
Lawyer Joe Morse wants to consolidate all the small-time numbers racket operators into one big powerful operation. But his elder brother Leo is one of these small-time operators who wants to stay that way, preferring not to deal with the gangsters who dominate the big-time.
James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld. When a friend of his is gunned down by a notorious criminal, Brick decides to abandon the exercise of the law and join the Department of Justice to capture the murderer.
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.