A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Told in flashback, we witness a sleazy dancehall girl (Vivienne Osborne) dupe a high rise riveter (Edward G. Robinson) into marriage so she can live off of him. But when he loses his job and his marbles, she ends up supporting him with money from her side man--and misses no opportunity to rub it in his face that she's now supporting him in his emasculated state. As the animosity grows and things get more and more unbearable, he is eventually driven to desperate measures.
Edward G. Robinson
as John Allen
Vivienne Osborne
as Shirley Day
Guy Kibbee
as Bookie
Preston Foster
as Bud Clark
J. Carrol Naish
as Tony
Frederick Burton
as Judge
Harry Beresford
as Doctor
Dorothea Wolbert
as Lizzie, Cleaning Lady
Berton Churchill
as The Warden
William Janney
as College Boy at Execution
Edward McWade
as The Prison Doctor
Gladys Lloyd
as Woman
