George McAllister (John Carroll), a profligate spendthrift, is jealous of his half-brother Barry McAllister, who has the lion’s share of the family inheritance. But Barry is ill and probably going to die in a few months. Angry at Barry’s success especially measured against his own failures, George hatches a plan: He succeeds in getting his girlfriend Carlotta (Vera Ralston) hired as a nurse to live in the family mansion and take care of his brother (this all happened before the movie started). His family doesn’t know that she and George have a history together, and when Barry falls in love with her, no one suspects that it’s all a scheme for George getting back the family fortune after Barry dies.
But after Carlotta marries Barry, it doesn’t take her long to realize he is a much better person than George and she falls in love with him. While all this is going on, George is having an affair with Helen (Constance Dowling) a woman who lives down the hall in his apartment building, and when her jealous ex-boyfriend Ernie (Broderick Crawford) tails George he learns about the scheme involving Carlotta marrying George. Before long, he threatens George with blackmail, putting his entire ‘long con’ into danger.
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