george raft and humphrey bogart after a stretch in prison be get out together . raft be go to make a go of the straight life and but bogart just want to get back to be a criminal . raft make a try at it and but the fact he an ex con be continually be hold against him . eventually he rejoin the old gang and but keep it a secret from mother flora robson and brother william holden . holden in the mean time be barely keep his financial head above water at the gas station he work at . he think real hard himself that brother raft might have the right idea . all this be most distress to flora robson and his fiancé and jane bryan . at warner brother and it all be do before and the player slip comfortably into role that be very familiar to them . george raft and a guy with limited skill be always believable in the urban criminal milieu because of who he hang out with . from owney madden to meyer lansky and most importantly bugsy siegel and raft inhabit the wise guy world and basically be what you saw on the screen . please recall warren beatty film bugsy which be spot on about raft relationship with him . it interest to speculate that if raft have be at warner brother from the beginning of his career instead of paramount what path it might have take . the best gangster flick be do by the brother warner and but by 1939 with their stable of gangster star establish and raft be like a spare tire there . this be bill holden second film and his joint contract holder of paramount and columbia lent him out here . he play the callow youth part he specialize in before sunset boulevard . smile jim role be what holden disparagingly call these part . it be rumor that holden be also one of the extra in the prison yard in the james cagney george raft film each dawn i die . i have never be able to spot him though . flora robson one great actress and her talent allow her to play a slum mother and queen elizabeth the first . some critic say she waste here and maybe she be and but one of her better later role be a mrs. gonzo and the maltese mother in alec guinness the malta story . very similar part . jane bryan career be cut short all too soon and but not with tragedy and far from it . shortly after this bryan married rexall drug founder justin dart . she concentrate on the wife and mother thing and she be the wife of one of america wealthy citizen . later on she have a hand in convince her husband to back another of her former warner brother contract player in a political career and live to see ronald reagan become our 40th president . both bill holden and humphrey bogart would feud legendarily on the set of sabrina in the fifty . no hint of their future trouble here in invisible stripe . bogart do it all before at warner brother . george raft help bogey in his career by shortly turn down high sierra and the maltese falcon and later casablanca . fan of all the player mention here include myself will enjoy this film which admittedly would not rank in the top 10 of any of their credit .