

A retired prizefighter becomes the unlikely guardian of a young orphan boy recently arrived from England to New York's Bowery District.

Wallace Beery
Roy 'Slag' McGurk

Dean Stockwell
Nipper

Edward Arnold
Mike Glenson

Aline MacMahon
Mamie Steeple

Cameron Mitchell
Johnny Burden

Dorothy Patrick
Caroline Glenson

Morris Ankrum
Fowles

Clinton Sundberg
Flexter

Tom Kennedy
Bruiser (uncredited)

Guy Stockwell
Kid