Public Hero Number 1

Jeff Crane is a federal agent. He is given a hard assignment. He is to break a gang from the inside. The gang is called the Purple Gang. There is something peculiar about the group. It preys on other criminals. Crane poses as a crook. He gets to know the gang’s leader in prison. He arranges the man’s escape. That is how he earns his trust. The two of them cross the country together. The flight is long and dangerous. All the while Crane has to keep his identity hidden. Lionel Barrymore and Jean Arthur appear in the eighty nine minute film, an American production J. Walter Ruben finished in 1935.