A gangster frames two bootleggers for the shooting of a police officer in New York during the prohibition.
Eddie (Landis) a kid from Upstate New York, is conned into fronting for a speakeasy on Broadway. Throughout the con there is an inevitable chorus-girl with a heart of gold (Costello), a cop-killing gangster boss (Oakman) and his downtrodden ex-girlfriend (Brockwell).—rocknrollunderdawg