Remarkable for its frank handling of controversial subjects, this Depression-era drama depicts the struggle of a WWI veteran, who after taking shrapnel in the spine, becomes addicted to morphine. His contacts with drug-peddling gangsters and Bolshevik agitators land him in jail, away from the young son he had during a brief marriage. Richard Barthelmess brings the appropriate earnestness to his role as one of the "forgotten men" whose fortunes rise and fall with history.
First National Pictures, Inc. Producer: Hal B. Wallis. Director: William A. Wellman. Screenwriter: Wilson Mizner. Cinematography: James Van Trees. Editor: Howard Bretherton. Cast: Richard Barthelmess, Aline MacMahon, Loretta Young, Gordon Westcott, Robert Barrat. 35mm, b/w, 76 min.
