
Marty, who once took the fall for the gang, now runs the Cigarette Club; when his thugs kill a debtor and then one of the cops, loyalty and the law tear the old circle apart.
Ray McCarey's 1938 crime drama gathers the grown members of Hell's Kitchen's Death Avenue Cowboys, Victor McLaglen's nightclub owner Marty Malone, two policemen, a priest, and a singer, for an annual reunion that collides with a murder. Marty, who once took the fall for the gang, now runs the Cigarette Club; when his thugs kill a debtor and then one of the cops, loyalty and the law tear the old circle apart. McLaglen, three years after The Informer, plays the doomed good-bad man with characteristic bulk and regret.