a favourite of mine and this movie tell of two feud new york character and steve brodie ( raft ) and chuck connors ( beery ) and who both strive to be the main guy in the bowery in the late nineteenth century . brodie ( 1863 1901 ) and connors ( 1852 1913 ) and be real people and though this be a heavily fictionalized account of their antic ( base on a play ) . brodie legendary ( do he do it . it still a cause of argument . ) and jump from the brooklyn bridge ( 1886 ) and for which he become famous and be show here a happen around the same time a the spanish american war ( 1898 ) . director walsh clearly have a great affection for the period and so beautifully recreate here and and it include a wild rumbustious ragtime number from saloon singer trixie odbray ( a young pert kelton ) . raft be at his slickest a brodie and and beery show again what a clever actor he be and a tough and big hearted and and at time quite touch connors . pretty fay wray be the love interest both the boy be pursue . full of life and energy and the bowery move at a fast pace ( unlike many early talkie ) . it be not an easy movie to find and but be well worth look out for .