
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.

as Dollar Bill

as Minnie

as Sue

as Bob

as Jackie

as Alice

as Pat

as Jackie's mother

as Maud

as Fats

as Brother Hornsby

as Long-Boy

as Half-Pint

as Wallstreet

as Nina Mae Brown

as A Boy from Newark

as A Boy from Newark

as Connie

as Jean

as Himself - Clarinetist

as Himself - Bandleader of Christopher Columbus and His Swing Crew


as Woman (uncredited)