Plot
Eddy Crane is the leader of a gang that robs small businesses for petty cash. At one point his gang accosts the broken-down car of Harry Bayliss, who is a music business executive. Afterward, Bayliss wishes to call a tow truck, so he goes into the diner where Eddy's gang is celebrating. Bayliss overhears Eddy singing to the jukebox and offers him a chance to audition for his variety program. Eddy accepts, passes his audition, and is given a spot on television. Eddy sings a two-minute song that is apparently stupendously successful, with Bayliss calling Eddy an "overnight sensation" and prophesying an astounding rise to fame, complete with a hit record, "a guest spot on every top show," and eventually culminating with "The Eddy Crane Show". Atop Eddy's newfound success, he also begins making advances toward Bayliss' secretary, Helen Tracy, in preference over his long-suffering girlfriend Iris.
The specter of Eddy's stardom raises dissension among his gang, who wish either to accompany him on his ascent, or to hold him back in their ranks. Iris is also jealous of Helen, with whom Eddy has been carrying on an affair. Helen eventually professes her love for Eddy. When one of Eddy's gang members, Moon, kills a fat barkeep, this threatens to drag Eddy down by association. Moon runs from the police, but is tracked down by Eddy, who delivers him for arrest. With this he definitively separates himself from the rest of his gang and from Iris, but also destroys his prospects for a singing career with his own arrest.
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