A small-time crook realises he is in a heap of trouble when he learns the money he stole from a bank belongs to the Mafia. The mobsters are keen to be reunited with their cash and to make sure the robber pays with his life, so they set a killer with a taste for torture on his trail - drawing the wily crook into a battle of wits. Crime thriller, starring Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr, Andrew Robinson and Sheree North