***SPOILERS*** First of five movies that Edward G. Robinson and Humphrey Bogart were together in has Robinson as tough incorruptible and straight as an arrow NYC cop Johnny Blake infiltrate the mob in order to get the goods on who's behind it and paying off the local police and politicians to keep the mob immune from the law.
Getting together with his boss police Captain Dan McLaren, Joe King, Blake has himself booted from the force for no other reasons then not having his tie straightened during the annual Saint Patrick's Day Parade. This ridicules charade on both Blake and Capt.McLaren's part is farther enhanced that during a boxing match at Madison Square Garden Blake belt's the police captain in front of mobsters Al Kruger and his #1 Man Bugs Ferner, Barton MacLane and Humphrey Bogart, in order to convince them that his firing by Capt.McLaren was in fact on the up and up.
Impressed by Blake's actions which Capt. McLaren refused to press charges against him Kruger offers him the #2 spot, after Bugs Ferner,in him crime organization. Unknown to Kruger but not the smart and quick on his feet,in smelling a rat, Ferner Blake is planning to not only set him up but his bosses, a bunch of big Wall Street type, for the fall. That's in having the police headed by Capt. McLaren catching them red handed with the good's or money from their criminal enterprises like loan sharking bookie and the numbers rackets.
Ferner who never trusted Blake and with good reason soon gets a bit ticked off with his boss Kruger in him being so naive and stupid in letting Blake in on his mob operations and offs, guns down, Kruger making it look like a rival mob boss did it. Blake who was promoted by Kruger as his #1 Man in now becoming the Main Man, after Kruger's murder, finally gets to see who's big or #1 boss or bosses, the Wall Street movers and shakers, and plans to set them up! That's before Ferner gets wind of what he's planning for them as well as himself! It's now a race against time in Blake getting his bosses to take the weekly numbers profits that he promised them before a mad as hell, in being double-crossed by Blake, Ferner gets to him first!
***SPOILERS*** The what seemed like smart cookie Blake turns out to be as silly and self-destructive as his former and dead boss Kruger by for reasons known only to himself, and the movie script writers, has Ferner track him down at his secret hideout in downtown Manhattan to end up getting shot, as well as shooting Ferner in return, by him. With his girlfriend numbers racket gun moll Lee Morgan, Joan Blondell, giving him a lift in her car to Wall Street Blake brings back the bacon,illegal numbers money, to his bosses only to have them busted and thrown behind bars by Capt. McLane & his boys as soon as they laid their hands on it! As for Blake he'll never live to see what his heroic as well as brainless actions accomplished by dying from the wounds inflicted on him by Ferner that he, by not using his head, could have so easily avoided!
Getting together with his boss police Captain Dan McLaren, Joe King, Blake has himself booted from the force for no other reasons then not having his tie straightened during the annual Saint Patrick's Day Parade. This ridicules charade on both Blake and Capt.McLaren's part is farther enhanced that during a boxing match at Madison Square Garden Blake belt's the police captain in front of mobsters Al Kruger and his #1 Man Bugs Ferner, Barton MacLane and Humphrey Bogart, in order to convince them that his firing by Capt.McLaren was in fact on the up and up.
Impressed by Blake's actions which Capt. McLaren refused to press charges against him Kruger offers him the #2 spot, after Bugs Ferner,in him crime organization. Unknown to Kruger but not the smart and quick on his feet,in smelling a rat, Ferner Blake is planning to not only set him up but his bosses, a bunch of big Wall Street type, for the fall. That's in having the police headed by Capt. McLaren catching them red handed with the good's or money from their criminal enterprises like loan sharking bookie and the numbers rackets.
Ferner who never trusted Blake and with good reason soon gets a bit ticked off with his boss Kruger in him being so naive and stupid in letting Blake in on his mob operations and offs, guns down, Kruger making it look like a rival mob boss did it. Blake who was promoted by Kruger as his #1 Man in now becoming the Main Man, after Kruger's murder, finally gets to see who's big or #1 boss or bosses, the Wall Street movers and shakers, and plans to set them up! That's before Ferner gets wind of what he's planning for them as well as himself! It's now a race against time in Blake getting his bosses to take the weekly numbers profits that he promised them before a mad as hell, in being double-crossed by Blake, Ferner gets to him first!
***SPOILERS*** The what seemed like smart cookie Blake turns out to be as silly and self-destructive as his former and dead boss Kruger by for reasons known only to himself, and the movie script writers, has Ferner track him down at his secret hideout in downtown Manhattan to end up getting shot, as well as shooting Ferner in return, by him. With his girlfriend numbers racket gun moll Lee Morgan, Joan Blondell, giving him a lift in her car to Wall Street Blake brings back the bacon,illegal numbers money, to his bosses only to have them busted and thrown behind bars by Capt. McLane & his boys as soon as they laid their hands on it! As for Blake he'll never live to see what his heroic as well as brainless actions accomplished by dying from the wounds inflicted on him by Ferner that he, by not using his head, could have so easily avoided!