When "The Blonde" wants to pay for her dope with something "other than cash" Joe refuses because he has his eyes on a neighborhood girl, Teresa Porter, who is more his speed.

They are impressed by his silence behind bars, and offer him a key spot if he will prove his loyalty by carrying out a murder contract.

During a "Welcome Home Party" thrown him by his Mother, Joe slips out long enough to kill his assignment and return.

But Ernie spends his salary on a narcotics habit, and one night barges in high as a kite waving a gun and threatening blackmail.

Syndicate boss Paul Moran is fearing Joe's growing power, and orders Black Frankie to kill him.

But when he returns to the apartment, wounded, where Black Frankie coldly tells him there never was a getaway ship, and shoots Joe dead in front of Teresa (who he allows to live).

[5] Independent film producer Edward L. Alperson brought the screen play to Corman.

The Monthly Film Bulletin found the black humor to elevate the movie over its rather episodic story.