"Finally comes the national referendum on repeal. Tired of years of violence, corruption, and loss of personal liberty, Americans go to the polls and overwhelmingly rout the dry forces. After thirteen years, Prohibition is dead, leaving in its wake a criminal element used to wealth and power but unable for the most part to cope with a new determination by an aroused public that law and order should once more reign."

"1929. As the dizzy decade nears its end, the country is stock-market crazy. The great and the humble, the rich man and the working man, the housewife and the shopgirl, all take their daily flyer in the market. And no one seems to lose. Then like a bombshell comes that never-to-be-forgotten Black Tuesday, October 29, confusion spreads through the canyons of New York City's financial district and men stare wild-eyed at the spectacle of complete ruin. More than sixteen and a half million shares change hands in a single day of frenzied selling. The paper fortunes built up over the past few years crumble into nothing before this disaster which is to touch every man, woman, and child in America."

"1924. By now, America is well-launched into an era of amazing madness. Bootlegging has grown from small, individual effort to big business embodying huge coalitions and combines. The chase after huge profits is followed closely by their inevitable partners: corruption, violence, and murder. A new and horrible tool appears - the tommy - a light, deadly wasp-like machine gun, and murder henceforth is parceled out in wholesale lots."

"Joseph Sawyer - Sergeant Pete Jones"

"And so the Eddie of this story joins the thousands and thousands of other Eddies throughout America. He becomes a part of a criminal army - an army that was born of a marriage between an unpopular law and an unwilling public. Liquor is the password in this army. And it's a magic password that spells the dollar sign as it spreads from city to city, from state to state. The public is beginning to look upon the bootlegger as something of an adventuresome hero, a modern crusader who deals in bottles instead of battles. And so, because of a grotesque situation, this new kind of army grows and grows, always gaining new recruits who care nothing about tomorrow just so long as money is easy today."

"Back in this country, the boys who had returned from overseas begin to find out that the world has moved on during the time they spent in France...Everywhere, things have changed but particularly in New York. The old Broadway is only a memory. Gone are many of the famous landmarks, for already, America is feeling the effects of Prohibition. There is a concentrated effort at readjustment to normal peacetime activities, but unemployment coming in the wake of the wartime boom is beginning to grip the country and the soldiers find their return to face - on a different front - the same old struggle, the struggle to survive."

"Abner Biberman - Lefty"

"John Hamilton - Judge"

"Robert Elliott - First Detective"

"Vera Lewis - Mrs. Gray"

"Edward Keane - Pete Henderson"

"Elisabeth Risdon - Mrs. Sherman"

"Paul Kelly - Nick Brown"

"George Meeker - Harold Masters"

"Possibly there are more things in heaven and Earth than are dreamed of in your psychiatry, Mr. Garth."

"Vernon Steele - Squires"

"E. E. Clive - Sergeant Wilkes"

"Edgar Norton - Hobbs"

"Claud Allister - Sir Aubrey"

"Hedda Hopper - Lady Esme Hammond"

"Nan Grey - Lili"

"Billy Bevan - Albert"

"Halliwell Hobbes - Hawkins"

"Irving Pichel - Sandor"

"Gilbert Emery - Sir Basil Humphrey, Scotland Yard"

"Edward Van Sloan - Professor Von Helsing"

"Marguerite Churchill - Janet"

"Gloria Holden - Countess Marya Zaleska - Dracula's Daughter"

"Otto Kruger - Dr. Jeffrey Garth"

"Look out, she'll get you!"

"She gives you that weird feeling!"

"You know, this is the first woman's flat I've been in that didn't have at least 20 mirrors in it."

"Her pulse is weak Dr. Garth... Growing weaker. All your skill can't help her now. She's under a spell that can be broken only by me... or death."

"Be thou exorcised oh Dracula, and thy body long undead find destruction throughout eternity in the name of thy dark unholy Master. In the name of the oh holiest and through this cross be the evil spirit cast out until the end of time"

"Eugene Pallette - Alexander Bullock"

"Gail Patrick - Cornelia Bullock"

"Jean Dixon - Molly"

"Alan Mowbray - Tommy Gray"

"Mischa Auer - Carlo"

"Pat Flaherty - Mike Flaherty"

"Well, there's just two ways to get outta here. Work out and die out."

"You gotta ask their permission to wipe the sweat off...And in the first place, you got to get their permission to sweat."

"It's not the kind of work I want to do...It's too monotonous...No one seems to realize that I've changed, that I'm different now. I've been through hell. Folks here are concerned with my uniform, how I dance. I'm out of step with everybody. I was hoping to come home and start a new life - to be free, and again, I find myself under orders, a drab routine, cramped, mechanically even worse than the Army. And you, all of you, trying your darndest to map out my future, to harness me and lead me around to do what you think is best for me. Doesn't it occur to you that I've grown? That I've learned that life is more important than a medal on my chest or a stupid, insignificant job."

"[about the convicts' food] Grease, fried dough, pig fat, and sorghum. And you'd better get to like it, 'cause you're gonna get the same thing every morning, every year."

"What would I say to a hamburger? Oh, boy. I'd shake Mr. Hamburger by the hand and say, 'Pal, I haven't seen you in a long, long time.'"

"The state's promise didn't mean anything. It was all lies! They just wanted to get me back so they can have their revenge, to keep me here nine more years. Why, their crimes are worse than mine, worse than anybody's here. They're the ones that should be in chains, not we!"

"Alice Brady - Angelica Bullock"