Harry Cording's mob is too well connected for DA Walter McGrail to put down. When gangster Jack Mulhall moves into town, McGrail has him brought to his office. Soon they're laughing and reminiscing; McGrail had saved his life during the War. He offers Mulhall a badge to fight fire with gunfire. Mulhall's mob thinks it's a swell idea.
Director George B. Seitz takes Scott Darling's script and pretty much runs riot with it, with lots of shooting, admiring references to Mussolini and overt police corruption. William Wellman was getting away with it at Warners, so this Poverty Row production does the same, albeit a little more coyly. It's a decent effort, even though the mob continues to be very WASPy; the only obvious Italian is a guy running a French laundry.