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Orphans Edward "Blackie" Gallagher and Jim Wade are lifelong friends who take different paths in life. Blackie thrives on gambling and grows up to be a hard-nosed racketeer. Bookworm Wade becomes a D.A. vying for the Governorship. When Blackies girlfriend Eleanor leaves him and marries the more down to earth Wade, Blackie harbors no resentment. In fact, their friendship is so strong that Blackie murders an attorney threatening to derail Wades bid to become Governor. The morally straight Wades last job as D.A. is to convict his friend of the murder, and send him to the electric chair. After he becomes Governor, Wade has the authority to commute Blackies death sentence-- a decision that pits his high moral ethics against a lifelong friendship.
As young boys, best of friends Jim Wade and Blackie Gallagher lose both their parents in a riverboat accident. Although they remain close friends, they definitely take different paths in life. Blackie was always the streetwise kid and, as an adult, now works on the edge of the criminal world running casinos and speakeasies. He steps over the line by killing Manny Arnold over money hes owed. Jim, meanwhile, went to school eventually earning a law degree. He also gets himself elected as the citys prosecutor. Blackies girlfriend, Eleanor Packer, wants him to go straight and leaves him when he refuses to do so. She meets up with Jim, and they are soon married. As DA, Jim never solves the Manny Arnold case but rises in politics becoming candidate for Governor. After Jim is accused of protecting his friend in the Mannie Arnold case, Blackie steps in and tries to take care of it. Jim is still the DA, however, and he finds himself prosecuting his lifelong friend and ultimately having to make a fateful decision.
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Blackie Gallagher
William Powell
Jim Wade
Myrna Loy
Eleanor
Leo Carrillo
Father Joe
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Isabel Jewell
Annabelle
Muriel Evans
Tootsie Malone
Thomas E. Jackson
Richard Snow
Isabelle Keith
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Frank Conroy
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Manny Arnold
Jimmy Butler
Jim - as a Boy
Mickey Rooney
Blackie - as a Boy
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Oscar Apfel
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William Arnold
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William Augustin
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