Stephen Ashe, an upper class alcoholic defense attorney, successfully defends local mobster Ace Wilfong in a murder case. After his daughter Jan Ashe breaks her engagement to polo player Dwight Winthrop and starts an affair with Wilfong, she finds that the liaison is not easily severed when she wants out. Winthrop earns Miss Ashe s true affections by killing Wilfong to break his grip on her. Can Stephen Ashe save Winthrop with an impassioned defense speech to the jury?

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