Gruff boxing manager "Square Shooting Murph" Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer Baston.Homer is willing to give up his boxing career searching for his parents, so Murphy hires two jailbirds to play his long lost parents to keep him in the ring.
Pat O’Brien
as William Jennings 'Billy / 'Square Shooting Murph' Murphy
Wayne Morris
as Homer Baston
Joan Blondell
as Doris Harvey
May Robson
as Margaret 'Maggie' / 'Ma' Manell
Jane Wyman
as Marian Bronson
Stanley Fields
as Muscles Malone
Maxie Rosenbloom
as Curley Bender
Sidney Toler
as Judge William 'Gashouse' Bronson
Edward Brophy
as Eddie Black
Ward Bond
as Ladislaw Klewicki
Noble 'Kid' Chissell
as Boxer
Loia Cheaney
as Bronson's Maid