Directed by:
Mervyn LeRoyCinematography:
Merritt B. GerstadCast:
John Gilbert, Louis Wolheim, Leila Hyams, Anita Page, Marie Prevost, John Miljan, Ferike Boros, Ralph Ince, Frank Reicher, Paul Porcasi, Tenen Holtz (more)Plots(1)
Wealthy gentleman Jack Thomas is engaged to Marjorie Channing, whom he plans to marry in one month. While planning his wedding and a European honeymoon, Jack is told by Mario, his guardian and financial adviser, that his name is really Giacomo Tomasulo and that he is not really an orphan. Mario also informs him that his father is on his deathbed and wants to see him. When Jack meets Frank Tomasulo, a brother he did not know that he had, at the Hotel Ritzi in Jersey City, he soon learns that his hard-boiled brother is a racketeer in the liquor-running business. Jack also realizes that Frank expects him to shed his high society ways and join the mob once his father dies. Jack eventually succumbs to his brother's pressure to join the mob, but insists that his fiancée be kept ignorant of his involvement. When Marjorie becomes entangled in a Tomasulo jewel robbery, however, she is prevented from leaving her hotel room and learns the truth about the family. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
John Gilbert
USA
Best movies:
He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
Flesh and the Devil (1926)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
Louis Wolheim
USA
Best movies:
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
America (1924)
Leila Hyams
USA
Best movies:
Freaks (1932)
Island of Lost Souls (1932)
Spite Marriage (1929)
Anita Page
USA
Best movies:
The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)
This Happy Breed (1944) - a.f.
The Broadway Melody (1929)
Marie Prevost
Canada
Best movies:
Nana (1926)
The Marriage Circle (1924)
Ladies of Leisure (1930)
John Miljan
USA
Best movies:
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
Juarez (1939)
Ferike Boros
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Talk of the Town (1942)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
Ralph Ince
USA
Best movies:
Little Caesar (1931)
Frank Reicher
German Empire
Best movies:
Song of Love (1947)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Paul Porcasi
Italy
Best movies:
Casablanca (1942)
It Started with Eve (1941)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Tenen Holtz
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Dinner at Eight (1933)
Show People (1928)
Hollywood Party (1934)
Edward LeSaint
USA
Best movies:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
Edison, the Man (1940)
Modern Times (1936)
George Cooper
USA
Best movies:
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Leila Bennett
USA
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
Dames (1934)
Tiger Shark (1932)