spoiler thing be go pretty good for vinnie glen and peter falk and in his management of his bookmaking racket out of his boston gin mill vinnie bar that he run for some 30 year . it wasn not until locasso and tony sirico and the neighborhood mafia bos start to turn the screw on vinnie very liberal collection habit and in not lean too hard on his deadbeat customer and that thing start go downhill . have his not too dependable under link uncle pete and frank vincent and break in his coke sniff nephew tony cisero and freddie prince jr and a both vinnie partner and muscle man and debt collector and locasso make the big blunder since hitler invade the ussr back in june 1941. tony thinking that he al capone jr quickly make a mess of vinnie bookie operation in not know the business of gently persuade without have to break their arm legs or head his deadbeat customer to either pay up or be cut off from all the gamble action . a fate worse then death for anyone who hook on gamble . it be in fact tony who get vinnie to see the light in what he be do over the year in living off his many sick and compulsive degenerate gambling customer . take advantage of this sick sorry a of a human be the out of work and always drink frankie paterson and timothy hutton and tony take his $ 1 and 100 . 00 bet on the dallas cowboy and who be behind by almost 20 point at the time he take it and know that the poor slob be in no condition to make a bet in the first place . frankie have steal his hard work wife marybeth and lauren holly and vacation money and after get smash and on cheap booze and stagger into vinnie office and with vinnie away and and plunk marybeth money down on dallas add another $ 5 and 000 . 00 and that he do not have and on top of it with frankie take the bet . it when vinnie find out what a mess frankie make of not only himself but his family he try to get tony to smooth thing over by have marybeth pay off frankie debt by give tony and as well a himself and $ 200 . 00 a week that only include the vig or interest . that sound financial arrangement on vinnie part would take about seven month for marybeth to pay her husband frankie debt and minus the vig and off . a desperate marybeth be only able to come up with $ 150 . 00 a week in order to save her strung out husband frankie who so drink that he doesn not know that he lose the bet from sleep with the fish . this have and in know a good thing when he see one and tony demand for marybeth to put out and or prostitute herself and for him to make up the $ 50 . 00 that she come up short with . see just how thing get out of hand after tony become his partner in the bookie business vinnie then decide to quit the racket but only after he not only clean out tony clock but his chicken livered and in his always buckle down to his mafiso bos locasso and uncle pete as well . even though the end of the movie be a bit too hard to take peter falk performance a bookie vinnie glen be one of the best of of his long movie and tv career . have a heart of gold in a business and take illegal bet and loan sharking and where it almost unheard off vinnie get himself into a bind that he know he will never get out off . the both ruthless tony and his uncle pete and as well a mob bos locasso and tactic start to turn off vinnie to the point where he decide to sell his bar and as well a his bookie business and and move with his wife ellen and tyne daly and down to sunny florida . spoiler it be when vinnie caught tony force himself on a disgusted and repulsed marybeth and in his office no less and that he just lose control of himself . it not that vinnie stop tony from have his way with marybeth and she do that herself and he instead end up free himself once in for all form this whole rotten business of take book and shake down and work over those sick unfortunate soul who can not or just would not pay up .