James Cagney and Ralph Bellamy star in this crime drama about a driven ex-convict who brings his crooked ways to a job as a tabloid news photographer. Trying to go straight after a stretch in jail, former gangster Danny Kean falls in love with the daughter of the cop who caught him. Unconvinced that Danny has left his life of crime behind him when he starts a new career taking pictures for a sleazy tabloid newspaper, the officer worries about the kind of man his daughter is consorting with.