familiar story of nice guy scotty ( tom laughlin ) and his sweet girlfriend janice ( rosemary howard ) be take in by a gang of hood lead by bill ( peter miller ) . this be the type of movie which show bad behaviour a be smoking and drinking and start fight . i know i be in trouble when it start off with a narrator tell the audience that this be a cautionary tale of where their kid might end up . i saw this only because it be robert altman first film he write and produce and direct it . it be make on a very low budget and it show . it horribly edit with inappropriate music cue ( there some thundering music when scotty just come out of a cab . ) . also the script have lapse especially when bill inexplicably want to help scotty . why . there no rhyme or reason . for some reason bill act like he sexually attract to scotty . all the actor be unknowns when this be make . the only one that go on to become famous be laughlin when 15 year later he do billy jack . a it be his act here be actually pretty good . he obviously way too old for his role but he handsome and muscular and have a lengthy shirtless scene . howard a his girlfriend be just awful . whiny and obnoxious . this be her only film it easy to see why . miller wasn not bad a the head of the gang and everyone else be ok. this be really of interest only a altman first film . other than that it just a run of the mill bad boy film that be do countless time in the 1950s .