A chorus girl flees a romantic producer and helps an escaped
convict on a bus trip across the country.
Gangster producer Legs Caffy (Nat Pendleton) wants to take chorus-girl
Letty Morris (Madge Evans) to Atlantic City; she refuses to go
and decides to take a bus to California to get away, but he joins
her. Paul Porter (Robert Montgomery) escapes from prison and gets
on the back of the bus after placing a car across the highway.
He steals a blue suit from the suitcase of Hector Withington (Ted
Healey). Letty sits next to Paul to get away from Legs, who learns
that Paul is wanted and threatens to tell the police if Paul does
not leave with Hector; but Hector decides to stay on the bus.
Legs keeps Letty from getting money wired by firing the chorus
girl who owes her $50. When Paul realizes that Hector got off
the bus and must have found his prison uniform, he flees the bus
and jumps on a moving train. He finds Letty in a motel room, but
she is being watched by Detective Daly (C. Henry Gordon) and his
police.
In a Colorado snowstorm Paul helps to find stranded children
in another bus, and Letty urges him to go and find a lost child,
which he does. When Daly arrests Paul, Letty asks him to be lenient
because of Paul's heroism. In the final scene Letty is visiting
Paul in prison when Daly brings him a pardon.
Since Letty is fleeing the unwanted attentions of Legs,
she has sympathy for the plight of the fugitive Paul even though
it involves risk for her. Although Paul choked a man to steal
a car, he probably has the audience on his side most of the time
and certainly does so after saving the children. Thus this drama
represents the feelings of those who struggle against the powerful
and those in authority.