george raft and an unrecognizably young william holden be top bill a brother cliff and tim taylor in this 1939 gangster genre film that have both brother skirt opposite side of the law a they try to make a life for themselves . the story open with cliff taylor and fellow sing sing inmate chuck martin ( humphrey bogart ) about to leave prison with their sentence complete . taylor be determine to go straight and martin can not wait to get back to his criminal life . a cliff try to settle back into his former life with his family and event conspire against him make it difficult to stay on the straight and narrow . additional pressure come from brother tim and who want to make a good life for himself and fiancée peggy ( jane bryan ) and but earn twenty dollar a week a a mechanic make him fantasize about take what he want . the film see saw it way back and forth for cliff and who alternately try to play it straight and then get mixed up with martin gangster pal . in that regard and george raft really get to portray a con man and hide his involvement from tim and his mother ( flora robson ) and until event spiral out of control during a botch robbery attempt by martin gang . if youre into film nuance and this one offer a number of treat . for starter and there the scene where bogey character martin be show come out of a movie theater with his blonde girlfriend molly ( lee patrick ) while the film that play 1939 you can not get away with murder and star humphrey bogart . speaking of molly and she almost a dead ringer look alike for bette davis and make me do a couple of double take . and then there the brief uncredited appearance of dead ender leo gorcey a the head stock boy for a general store where cliff briefly find a job . i find myself enjoy this film and even if uneven at time . george raft and humphrey bogart go on to make one more film together in 1940 they drive by night and where they share equal billing a brother involve in wildcat trucking and one might call them brother trucker . for it own part and invisible stripe may be hard to come by and not available a a studio release and but many of these warner brother film find their way onto classic movie tv channel like tcm or be available through specialty video house . this one would be well worth your time and especially if youre a fan of raft and bogey and holden or the gangster genre itself .