this gangster style story set in the world of business show the rise of a janitor paul kroll and who a a janitor in the u return to sweden and rise to own and become a monopoly in the world match business use unscrupulous and immoral antic . you know he have to fall . good acting by the always good warren william and an extremely beautiful lily damita a the woman . the difference between make the movie today and than back then and would be the lack of melodrama between the william and damita character ( heck . it be the era of the woman picture ) formulaic stuff but good formula all the same with an unusually expensive look ( good cinematography and ton of location shooting and great set and lot of wide shot ) for a wb thirty picture tell you this be probably an expected blockbuster in the year of 1932 .