The action takes place in 1869 when the only thing cheaper than life was perhaps a woman.' (voice over b&w introduction)
RAPTUROUS BEAUTY!...FURY OF A BEAST! (1944 Australian poster)
A HANGING TREE AT ONE END OF TOWN...and a wanton girl in jeopardy at the other...
It's a rush!
Some called him a hero. Some called him the most dangerous man in America.
Justice... in this or any other world.
Civilization... Lost
A young man of wealth has been disinherited by his father for falling in love with a girl of poor parents and has fled with her to Paris. They lose each other there, and are drawn into the underworld. Years later the man, now a thief sought by the police, is lured into the room of a woman of the streets. In her room he recognizes the lost sweetheart of his youth. At the same instant she realizes that this disreputable gamin before her is the lost idol of her dreams. The final reunion of the lovers makes a climax of unutterable suspense.
En esta noche de brujas la muerte estara presente.