The Way of All Flesh (1940)

Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank There he is tagged as easypickings by a congame gang and Mary Brown gang accomplice proves he is Waking up in the morning he discovers he has been robbed of the securities and when he confronts the gang he is hit on the head and taken out to be left on a railroad track He comes to struggles with the henchman and the man is killed when a train comes roaring by Paul escapes but his watch is found and he is reported as the dead man But he cant go home again