An aristocratic society couple adopt a foundling of unknown parentage. At the age of ten, however, the unknown foundling heard the call of worldly adventure and ran away from the luxurious home of his wealthy foster-parents. As the story opens, the prodigal son, whose given name is "Little Oswald," returns to Home and Mother - not as the handsome and romantic type as visualized by the society belles assembled to pay homage, but as - well, Bull Montana, with cauliflower ears, a checkered suit, a derby lid, a big black cigar - and two of the finest "hard boiled pals" that ever traversed the underworld.
—Moving Picture World, April 22, 1922