Vic Morano (Jack Palance) owns the speakeasy nightclub The Four Deuces while also being in the middle of a war with rival businessman Chico Hamilton (Warren Berlinger). The Four Deuces are his soldiers Chip Morono (Giani Russo), Mickey Navarro (Hard Boiled Haggerty) Ben Arlen (Johnny Hamer) and Smokey Ross (Martin Kove).
This has a lot of comic book in it, from the look of the opening introductions to Vic reading a Batman comic book years before Palance would play Carl Grissom.
This was produced by Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus after they made Lepke. Sam Firstenberg was a set decorator. Nick Dimitri, Gianni Russo, Vincent Di Paolo, Lany Gustavson and Warren Berlinger were part of both movies and this was a production of both Cannon Pictures and Golan-Globus Productions.
Director William H. Bushnell also made Prisoners and writer Don Martin had been writing since 1947's Lighthouse. C. Lester Franklin, the other writer, only worked on this movie.
Carol Lynley is Vic's lover Wendy Rittenhouse and Adam Rourke is reporter Russ Timmons, who becomes part of Vic's gang and also Wendy's lover. It's strange movie because it feels like a comic strip in look only, as the story itself doesn't feel like it matches the visual of the movie.
It also tries to be a comedy with sped-up slapstick scenes that also don't feel like they should be in the same movie. But it is one of Carl Weathers' first movies and the only theatrical movie that Palance appeared in with his daughter Brooke.
This has a lot of comic book in it, from the look of the opening introductions to Vic reading a Batman comic book years before Palance would play Carl Grissom.
This was produced by Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus after they made Lepke. Sam Firstenberg was a set decorator. Nick Dimitri, Gianni Russo, Vincent Di Paolo, Lany Gustavson and Warren Berlinger were part of both movies and this was a production of both Cannon Pictures and Golan-Globus Productions.
Director William H. Bushnell also made Prisoners and writer Don Martin had been writing since 1947's Lighthouse. C. Lester Franklin, the other writer, only worked on this movie.
Carol Lynley is Vic's lover Wendy Rittenhouse and Adam Rourke is reporter Russ Timmons, who becomes part of Vic's gang and also Wendy's lover. It's strange movie because it feels like a comic strip in look only, as the story itself doesn't feel like it matches the visual of the movie.
It also tries to be a comedy with sped-up slapstick scenes that also don't feel like they should be in the same movie. But it is one of Carl Weathers' first movies and the only theatrical movie that Palance appeared in with his daughter Brooke.