The Mad Game 1933

Men cringed before him...Only one woman understood him...and she alone knew the secret that inspired his ruthless campaign against the kidnapping racket.

Directed by Irving Cummings

Bootlegger Ed Carson is sent to prison. His old gang turns from liquor (now legal) to kidnapping. When they nab the son and daughter-in-law of the judge who sent Carson to prison, he is paroled to help in the capture.