A crooked deputy warden at San Quentin Penitentiary tries to frame a sergeant of the guards, Jack Holden, for the killing of a guard and a prisoner during a jailbreak.
'Snub' Pollard, Charles Middleton, Dick Curtis, Drew Demorest, Eleanor Stewart, Frank LaRue, Frank Leigh, George P Breakston, J Anthony Hughes, Jack Cheatham, Jeffrey Sayre, Joe Whitehead, John 'Skins' Miller, John Ince, John Shay, Michael Mark, Mike Donovan, Nancy Evans, Neyle Morrow, Pat McKee, Phil Arnold, Richard Cramer