In 1927 Chicago, a milquetoast gun shop owner witnesses two hoods murdering a witness to an earlier crime and assumes that he will suffer the same fate if he doesn't stop them first.
How long can a man who witnessed the murder of a star witness to murder survive in the Roaring '20s U.S.? The trigger-men are prized customers of the gunsmith who witnessed the murder, timid Cyril T. Jones who survives 3 bullets from his clients. Jones clams up while hospitalized, pretending he can't talk whenever lawmen try to interrogate him as he recovers.—David Stevens / edited by Hans Delbruck