spoiler outlandishly complicate film noir thriller that have the wife of some big time l. a gangster blackmail by both her lover and his girlfriend as well a this texas private investigator who double a a womens lingerie salesman at a local and exclusively for the rich and famous and upscale yuppie department store . you can never get a handle to what exactly big time city mobster wife lucinda and susan blakely and see in her boyfriend scott and dale midkiff and since he about a far away from her in lifestyle and interest a the distance that the north and south pole be from each other . lucinda be live the life of luxury and sure a hell wouldn not want to give it up for this oily and sweet talk romeo who masquerade around a some big shot businessman use his girlfriend charlene and beth toussaint and to double a his personal secretary scott have lucinda think that he a big success by always never be able to answer the phone and when she call him . scott be always try to impress lucinda in think he always involve in some big stock deal or corporate merger . lucinda be not stupid and can easily find out by just check where the phone number belongs to and the bottom of the barrel astor hotel and that the heel be put her on in order to fleece her out of a couple of hundred thousand dollar and then and with charlene and check out of town like the two do a number of time to impressionable old but rich widow . it also turn out that this private detective and or private dick and name norm and mark davis and be also on to what both scott and charlene be up to in their blackmailing lucinda and be in turn blackmail them in the fact that their want for rob a rich texas woman out of her life saving . during all this lucinda mobster husband gene and john saxon and be busy get arm and head break in his dealing with some very uncooperative home builder and union leader it seem like gene couldn not care less what lucinda be do behind his back as long a it doesn not interfere with his business practice . norm start to put the squeeze on the two blackmailing sleaze ball by first plant a bomb in their car and thats not powerful enough to kill them and just to get their attention and then somehow get involve with lucinda . lucinda get so sick of be shake down and be now ready to tell her husband the truth about her and scott and in make her think that her lover and that very blackmailing creep scott and be in trouble in that her husband find out about him and her and be go to have him rub out . feel that the best way to go with this and about to fall flat on it face and shake down scheme be by play on lucinda unnatural and even insane love for scott . norm while have a lunch rendezvous with scott have the surprised and now ex blackmailer and with norm now take over the job and get the living hell beat out of him in full view and in norm needing witness to make it look good and of some two dozen customer at a local japanese restaurant with him be one of the person who do the beating . scott batter and bruise tell lucinda that if she doesn not give the person who work him over the money and $ 100 and 000 . 00 and the next time he would not be so lucky . lucinda not willing to part with the cash so fast and know form personal experience that it would not be the last time she will hear from the blackmailer have one of her husband hit men and some creepy look guy with a beard and dark glass name albert and knock off the guy and include norm and who beat scott up . the movie then really go off the deep end of reality when we then see gene and the man for all season like norm and who we be just lead on to believe be kill and in a restaurant look at a number of hot photo of his wife and scott in bed together give u the impression that gene know all about lucindas cheat on him and that norm be really work for him right from the start . there so many false death in blackmail where be lead to at first believe that the person and like norm and that be kill can suddenly and without any explanation what so ever just magically come back to life that you start to wonder to yourself if even your alive or dead by the time the movie be over . the film lead up to this unbelievable conclusion with lucinda and scott as well a her husband gene and and the just who the hell be he work for anyway and private eye norm end up either dead or just fake it that it . this all make you think if those involve with the movie ever bother to even read the script and then see how ridicule it be would have just walk off the set and not come back unless major change be make .