After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
James Cagney
Bat Morgan
Margaret Lindsay
Jean Barrat
Ricardo Cortez
Paul Morra
Lili Damita
Belle Morra
Donald Woods
Charles Ford
Barton MacLane
Spider Burke