In this suspenseful silent crime drama, a hijacker proves his loyalty to his mother by killing his biological father, a blackmailing gangster who has been threatening to destroy the mother's happy marriage to the governor.
Richard Barthelmess
as Nickie Elkins
Montagu Love
as Buck Gordon
Robert Emmett O'Connor
as Jim Conley
Jay Eaton
as Tommy
Lina Basquette
as Dot
Thelma Todd
as Phyllis
Ed Brady
as Seth McMillan
Fred Warren
as Dave the Pianist
Alice Joyce
as Mrs. Bancroft
Will Walling
as Warden
Robert T. Haines
as Governor
Ernest Hilliard
as Craig