Fact1: Dan Quigley After being fired as tracks Myra Gale theater usher, Fact2: butler is killed during latest one, Fact3: Duke kills Pete and everyone flees, Fact4: Dan is picked up for questioning at train station, Fact5: Spade and old gang want Dan to use connections to get them inside stars homes in preparation for robberies
Output: After being fired as a theater usher, Dan Quigley James Cagney tracks down Myra Gale Mae Clarke to her apartment and returns the purse she dropped. He then sits in on a poker game with her brotherinlaw, Spade Maddock Douglass Dumbrille, Duke Leslie Fenton, Smiley Russell Hopton and Pete Raymond Hatton. After he loses all his money, he leaves, only to run into another person trying to return Myras purse. Realizing he has been conned, he threatens to go to the police... unless they let him join them, telling them he has some profitable ideas. He is as good as his word. Eventually, they are running a nightclub and casino, a perfect cover to scout the rich as burglary targets. Dan stages a car accident so a passing doctor can persuade Mrs. Marley Marjorie Gateson to let him rest for a while in her nearby mansion. This gives Dan an opportunity to check out the place, so that they can break in later. More burglaries follow, but Dan decides to quit when a butler is killed during the latest one. However, Pete cracks under police interrogation and betrays the others; when the police come for them, Duke kills Pete and everyone flees. Dan and Myra head to Los Angeles. Dan is picked up for questioning at the train station, so he gives his money to Myra for safekeeping. She then runs into Spade. When Dan telephones her to have her post his bail, Spade persuades her to go with him to Mexico instead. Dan is released anyway. Broke, he runs away from what he mistakes for a policeman, only to discover his pursuer is actually hiring extras for a film. Dan gladly accepts 3 a day and a box lunch. On his fourth day of work, he meets star Lois Underwood Margaret Lindsay and is surprised to find her friendly, even to a lowly extra. Meanwhile, National Studio head Ramick Henry ONeill is looking for fresh, rough and ready faces, as the public is tiring of handsome stars. One of his executives suggests Dan. Dan helps his career along by writing himself hundreds of fan letters a week, and is soon a rising star. He and Lois start going out together. When he spots a critic who had written harsh things about Lois, he forces the man to literally eat his words, making him swallow the newspaper column, and warns him against panning Lois again. He then takes Lois home to see his new suite. However, when they unexpectedly find Myra in his bedroom, Lois leaves. Dan throws Myra out, but she is not alone. Spade and their old gang want Dan to use his connections to get them inside stars homes in preparation for robberies. Dan refuses, and offers them 10,000, all the money he has, to leave town and never come back. Spade has no intention of departing. When burglaries start occurring using the modus operandi of Dans old gang, the police suspect he is the ringleader. Dan tracks the crooks down after they rob Lois. He retrieves her jewels at gunpoint, but just as he is leaving, the police arrive. He is arrested, while the others get away. In spite of the protests of the studio bigwigs, Lois adamantly intends to pay Dans bail and stand by him. However, Spade worries that Dan will tell all he knows and has Myra bail Dan out so they can kill him. Myra tells Dan, but he already suspected as much and had the police tail them both. After a car chase, the thieves are either dead or in custody, Dan is exonerated and he asks the authorities to guarantee leniency for Myra. Dan and Lois then fly to another state to get married without delay.