At one point, his gang accosts the broken-down car of a music business executive, Harry Bayliss.

Atop Eddy's newfound success, he also immediately begins making advances at Bayliss's secretary, Helen Tracy, in preference over his long-suffering girlfriend, Iris.

The specter of Eddy's stardom raises dissension among his gang, who wish either to accompany him unquestionably on his ascent, or to hold him back in their ranks.

With this he also definitively separates himself from the rest of his gang and from Iris, but also destroys his prospects for a career as a singer with his own arrest.

[3] In addition to producing teen exploitation films[4] such as Daddy-O, The Cool and the Crazy (both 1958), The Delinquents (1957) and Corn's-A-Poppin' (1956),[5][6] Rhodan was the son of the owner of the Midwestern Commonwealth Theatre chain,[7] but died in 1959.