Overview
Joe Lane, radio entertainer and songwriter, learns that the manager of the studio, Arthur Phillips, has made improper advances to his wife, Katherine. Infuriated, Lane engages him in a fight, and the encounter results in Phillips' accidental death. Joe goes to prison for a few years, and when he is released he visits his son, Little Pal, at school and is begged by him to run away together.
Director and cast
- Lloyd Bacon Director
- Al Jolson as Joe Lane
- Davey Lee as Little Pal
- Marian Nixon as Katherine Lane
- Holmes Herbert as Dr. Robert Merrill
- Kenneth Thomson as Arthur Phillips
- Fred Kohler as Fred, Joe's Cellmate
- Frank Campeau as Officer
- John Bowers as Dr. Burnes, surgeon
- Ernest Hilliard as Radio Station Employee
- Arthur Hoyt as Mr. Jones
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