Hardworking Minnie (Cora Green) marries "Dollar" Bill (Bud Harris) a shady gambler after her money and her attractive daughter, Sue (Izanetta Wilcois). Sue meanwhile, is in love with Bob (Carl Hough), an idealist fond of looking out over the skyline and saying "Harlem... there's so much to be done here--it's fairly screaming for leadership." When Bob decides to organize the community against local racketeers he little realizes would-be father-in-law Dollar Bill is one of them. Bill meanwhile has problems of his own: A vicious white mob from lower Manhattan is muscling in on his action, and bullets are about to fly.
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Buddy Harris
Dollar Bill
Cora Green
Minnie
Izinetta Wilcox
Sue
Earl Gough
Bob
Zerita Stepteau
Jackie
Petrina Moore
Alice
Daphne Fray
Pat
Mercedes Gilbert
Jackie's mother
Frances Harrod
Maud
Alec Lovejoy
Fats
Walter Richardson
Brother Hornsby
Slim Thompson
Long-Boy
Freddie Robinson
Half-Pint
John Bunn
Wallstreet
Marieluise Bechet
Nina Mae Brown
Edgar G. Ulmer
Director
Shirley Ulmer
Screenplay
Mathew Mathews
Story
Frank Wilson
Story
Alfred N. Sack
Executive Producer
Edgar G. Ulmer
Producer
Benjamin F. Resnick
Producer
Edward Hyland
Director of Photography
J. Burgi Contner
Director of Photography
Donald Heywood
Original Music Composer
Jack Kemp
Editor
Eugene Wolk
Production Design
