The story takes place in Milwaukee during the early 1900s with a bank clerk named August Schiller who is happy with both his job and his family. He is tasked with transporting $1,000 in securities to Chicago. On the train he meets a blond seductress who convinces him to buy her a bottle of champagne, and takes him to a saloon. The next morning he awakes alone in a dilapidated bedroom and without the securities.
Emil Jannings
as August Shilling
Belle Bennett
as Mrs. Schilling
Donald Keith
as August Jr.
Phyllis Haver
as The Temptress
Fred Kohler
as The Tough
Philippe De Lacy
as August, as a child
Mickey McBan
as Evald
Betsy Ann Hisle
as Charlotte
Carmencita Johnson
as Elizabeth
Gordon Thorpe
as Karl
Jackie Combs
as Heinrich
Dean Harrell
as Evald
