The Toast of New York

The movie follows Jim Fisk, Boyd, and Luke as they swindle Southern townsfolk into buying soap with a possible $10 gold piece inside. After being discovered, they flee to the North just before the Civil War begins. Fisk concocts a plan to smuggle cotton from the South to the North, where Luke will sell it to textile mills. By war's end, they've amassed millions, only to discover Luke invested their earnings in Confederate bonds.