After losing their parents in a flood at a young age, two brothers grow up to become a police officer and a lawyer, working with a local newspaper owner to help rid the city of bootlegging gangsters.
Spencer Williams
as Wesley Hill
Robert Orr
as Dancer
Geraldine Maynard
as Zelma Jordan
Elroy Easley
as
J.W. (John) Hemmings
as
Edwin T. Henry
as
Hugo Martin
as
L.K. Smith
as
Jackie Thomas
as
Ripplin
We open with a man with a long white beard, who is apparently God, standing in a library and writing the names of the Ellis family in his book of life. They are the couple Zeke and Zenobia, and their sons—in order of age, from oldest to youngest—Zebedee, Zachariah and Zion. A voice-over narration sa...