Edward Arnold and Cary Grant star in this biography of one of the greatest con men, robber barons and ruthless financiers ever to trod the sidewalks of Wall Street--"Jubilee Jim" Fisk--a smuggler, a tycoon who would cheat anyone for a buck, and The Toast of New York. During the United States' Civil War, peddler Jim Fisk and his partners Rick Boyd and Luke Hawkins amass a fortune by smuggling Southern cotton to Northern mills. But they invest everything in Confederate bonds and lose it all when the South suffers defeat. Moving to New York, the three con their way into a Stock Market fortune even greater than the one they had lost. But their audacious attempt to control the American gold market triggers the Black Friday of 1869, one of the greatest financial disasters in United States history, and ends their fantastic run as New York financiers.