After a roustabout sailor avoids being shanghaied in 1850s San Francisco, his audacity helps him rise to a position of power in the vice industry of the infamous Barbary Coast.
James Cagney
as Bat Morgan
Margaret Lindsay
as Jean Barrat
Ricardo Cortez
as Paul Morra
Lili Damita
as Belle Morra
Donald Woods
as Charles Ford
Barton MacLane
as Spider Burke
George E. Stone
as Solomon "Solly" Green
Joe King
as James "Jim" Daley (as Joseph King)
Addison Richards
as William Coleman
Robert McWade
as Judge Stephen Crawford
Joseph Crehan
as McClanahan
Robert Strange
as Graber
