Mr. Morris, the owner of a large metropolitan department store, gives jobs to paroled ex-convicts in an effort to help them reform and go straight. Among his 'employed-prison-graduates' are Helen Roberts and Joe Dennis, working as sales clerks. Joe is in love with Helen and asks her to marry him, but she is forbidden to marry as she is still on parole, but she says yes and they are married. In spite of their poverty-level life, their marriage is a happy one until Joe discovers she has lied about her past, in order to marry him. Disillusioned, he leaves, goes back to his old gang and plans to rob the department store.
Sylvia Sidney
as Helen Roberts
George Raft
as Joe Dennis
Barton MacLane
as Mickey
Harry Carey
as Mr. Morris
Roscoe Karns
as Cuffy
George E. Stone
as Pasty
Warren Hymer
as Gimpy Carter
Robert Cummings
as Jim
Adrian Morris
as Knucks
Roger Gray
as Bath House
Cecil Cunningham
as Mrs. Morris
Vera Gordon
as Mrs. Levine
