A disgraced former District Attorney plots his revenge on the members of a criminal gang who had him framed and sent to prison.
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The people behind it
Ralph Forbes
Norman Craig
Adrienne Ames
Ruth Knowles
Arthur Vinton
James Gordon
Claude Gillingwater
Witt
Charlotte Merriam
Sally
J. Carrol Naish
Hanley
Berton Churchill
Forster
Murray Kinnell
Cormack
Thomas E. Jackson
McCall
Paul Fix
Vickers
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