A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.

Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug, struggles to live up to his legendary older brother’s reputation and longs for the days when gang warfare was going on.

Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living, receives an unexpected visit from an old friend asking…