Wastrel New York millionaire Roland Van Dam travels to New Orleans during Mardi Gras, looking for adventure and romance. Because the costume he is wearing includes a red gardenia, he is mistaken for escaped prisoner Emile Le Duc by a woman (who turns out to be a long-lost cousin) who was to meet Le Duc, who was to be wearing a red gardenia. It turns out that Le Duc is the head of a vicious gang of counterfeiters, and Roland winds up getting in more adventures than he had hoped for.
Owen Moore
as Roland Van Dam
Hedda Nova
as Madelon Dorette
Hector V. Sarno
as Emile Le Duc
Sydney Deane
as Papa la Forge (as Sidney Deane)
Tully Marshall
as Alfred le Duc
Gertrude Claire
as Mere Felice
Alec B. Francis
as Mr. Banniman
Sidney Ainsworth
as Francois
Edwin Stevens
as Jean
Betty Schade
as Eleanor Banniman
Kate Lester
as Mrs. Banniman
