"The romance of a fighting man!"
An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.
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Joseph Calleia
Jack Moreno
Florence Rice
Abbey Reid
Thomas Mitchell
William J. Grady
Ted Healy
Joe "The Glut" Dwyer
Catherine Doucet
Hattie Reid
Jonathan Hale
Carter Spetner
Edward Nugent
Edward Spetner
Paul Stanton
Stringer
Robert Emmett Keane
Joseph B. Murphy
Jane Barnes
Marie Rosetti
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