The first film produced by Harry Cohn's brother Jack, and a version of this film's plot was used in 1937's "End of the Trail" that also starred Jack Holt as the good-man-gone-wrong who is executed. War-time buddies Cookie Leonard (Jack Holt) and Mike O'Dowd (Tom Moore) return from World War One and returning home, Mike becomes a police officer but Cookie finds his old job as a reporter on the Herald is no longer vacant, and he takes up with gangster/bootlegger A. C. Marino (Robert Ellis.) They are both in love with Molly Pearson (Constance Cummings), a nurse who looked after them in a field-hospital in France. Cookie, in order to save someone else kills Marino but is charged with murder and is arrested by his old friend Mike. Molly and Mike watch Cookie walk the last mile to the electric chair.