[1] Johnny Barrows (played by Fred "The Hammer" Williamson) a winner of the Silver Star is dishonorably discharged from the army for punching out his Captain.

Unable to secure gainful employment, Johnny finds himself on the soup line (with a cameo from "Special Guest Star" Elliott Gould) and down on his luck.

Walking into an Italian restaurant hoping for a handout, he's offered a job as a killer by Mafiosi Mario Racconi (Stuart Whitman) and his girlfriend Nancy (Jenny Sherman) but Johnny turns him down.

Eventually, Johnny lands a job at a gas station cleaning toilets and scrubbing floors for the mean penny-pinching Richard (R.G.

Brought to the brink by poverty, The Man constantly screwing him and his love for Nancy, Johnny agrees to become a hired killer for Mario to avenge the Racconis.