Director Tom Seymour affectionately referred to this film and his two other features as the "Backyard Trilogy" consisting of Everything Moves Alone, Land of College Prophets and London Betty.
The three films all involve backyard thieves or in the case of Land of College Prophets superheroes that all dwell in suburban environments all shot within central Connecticut.
London Betty (Nicole Lewis) is the plucky British journalist who gets a newspaper job in the small American town of Pharisee.
Her first story requires the toppling of the corrupt and perverted administration run by Mayor Plumb (Dick Boland) and his band of off-kilter hoodlums.
However, Betty has unlikely allies to help her bring down the mayor: a pair of petty thieves, Volga (Russ Russo) and Billy (Thomas Edward Seymour), a golden-hearted prostitute Jess (Margaret Rose Champagne) and a transvestite ex-Marine hitman, Sgt.