Paul Muni

Paul Muni (1932's Scarface) stars in this pre-Code crime drama as a WWI veteran whose dreams of becoming an architect evaporate in the cold light of economic reality. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.

In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio "Tony" Camonte, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.