Robert Emmett O'Connor

On the crime-ridden streets of the Bowery in 1930’s New York City, a 14-year-old gang leader makes a shocking discovery about the father he worships.

The film draws from a jolting real-life incident: the secret snapping and subsequent publication of a forbidden photograph showing the execution of a convicted murderess.

Chinatown shopkeeper by day and criminal mastermind by night, Mr. Wong goes on a mission to find the Twelve Coins of Confucius to rule his homeland.

Using Abraham Lincoln as his model for courage, a newsboy and night-school law student fights off hoods to make his dreams in the big city come true.