Phillip Eden (Richard Dix) has a gambling problem but he also has a little daughter who thinks he is the moon and the stars. Sometimes they are "in the dough" but more often subsisting on leftovers, but Alice (Edith Fellows) wouldn't have it any other way. When a discarded mistress (Shirley Grey) seeks to get even by informing his ex-wife, aloof, haughty Florence (Moore) of the whereabouts of his child, Phillip ties her to a chair and beats a hasty retreat, with Alice, to Italy. The police soon catch up with him and he is charged with murder!!! It seems that while Berenice was tied to the chair a faulty gas jet caused her death and he is sentenced to 15 years.
Years later Jennie, Alice's old nurse, visits Phillip with bad news about Alice. True to her nature, Florence is making her life a misery and in addition to forbidding her to marry the boy she loves, she has sapped Alice's spirit, leaving her a bed ridden invalid. Phillip escapes from prison and as "Uncle John" tries to help the melancholy Alice (Wilson) recapture her "joie de vive". He also meets Alice's young man (Bruce Cabot) and at the end stakes "his greatest gamble" in an effort to help them find happiness.
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