Ace, is an Afro-American who is employed at the laundry. He is always very impressed by the money of Mitch, his friend, and when he is put to jail, Ace jumps at the opportunity to form an unlawful empire, but his conscience gets the best of him.
This familiar rise-and-fall tale is long on glamour and short on larger moralistic consequences, though it's told with sharp ears and eyes for the tenor of the times.
Very familiar, yes, but a stylish and above all well-acted tale of friendships gone sour and the inevitable steep price of crime -- a much better movie than it's ever going to get credit for.
