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Two small time hoods, Dirk Kooiman and John Karlen, enter a small NY corner store and ask for some cigarettes. They then pull a .45 and whack the clerk on the noggin. They then clean out the till and grab everything of value.

At the same time, sewer worker, Will Kuluva, pops up out a manhole in front of the store. He sees the robbery and tries to stop the young hoods. For his troubles, all he gets is several bashes to the head with the pistol butt. The hoods then beat the feet down the alley.

While Kuluva is recovering in the hospital he gets a visit from his son, George Maharis. Maharis gives his old man hell for getting involved.

After leaving his father, Maharis enters a small pool room and joins 6-7 young toughs, including Kooiman and Karlen, who are having a game. He grabs a ball off the table and cracks Kooiman in the face. He then puts the boots to Karlen. "You ever touch my old man again, I'l..." We now learn that Maharis is the leader of this group of neighbourhood want to be gangsters. He then has the boys gather round as he outlines the next job. They are going to step up in the world. They are going to knock over a diamond dealer on his weekly trip to the bank.

By this time, Police Detectives, John McIntire, Harry Bellaver and James Franciscus have stopped by to speak with Kuluva. They show the man a group of drawings of suspects from other area hold-ups. Kuluva sees one of his son in the group, but says nothing.

That evening, Kuluva asks Maharis why the Police would have an interest in him. Maharis just laughs and says he intends to become a big wheel, and for that he needs money. If being a crook helps, so be it.

Kuluva visits Detective McIntire the next day to tell him his son, Maharis, is involved in the hold-ups. At the same time the Police get a call about the diamond dealer getting robbed. Witnesses say that the gunmen escaped down a sewer manhole.

Kuluva offers to help as he knows all the tunnels etc in the area. The Police soon run the young thugs to ground. Several do not wish to come quietly, and shots are exchanged with the Police the victors.

Another quick, and to the point, half hour Police drama.

The director was John Brahm. (b/w)

***SPOILERS***It's when sewer worker Mikel Strokirch, Will Kuluva, comes to his friend Eddie's aid he get the hell beat out of him by the thugs who were robbing him. It's later that Mikel's street smart son Stoke, George Maharis, found out what happened to him he went straight to the neighbor pool hall and worked over the two who put his dad in the hospital. It turns out that Stoke is the head of the gang that's been terrorizing the neighborhood who's latest victim was Mikel's good friend Eddie.

It's later that Stoke get's a couple of .45 automatics and plans to rob the local diamond merchant when he's on his way to his uptown, in the diamond district, office.his soon backfires with Stoke's gang of neighbor tough guys running in all directions from the police. Taking to the sewers, like rats, the gang is trapped with the police closing in on them. Knowing his way around the NYC sewers, he worked in them for 35 years, Mikel leads the police to where his son Stoke is hiding and finally talks some sense into his empty head to give himself up before here ends up dead. In the end both father and son help each other out of the sewer and together walk to the nearest police station where Stoke is to face the music not police bullets that he was so willing to do.

It was Stoke's hero worshiping his neighborhood hero convicted murder Rocky "The Bull" Bulluano that made him into the criminal that he turned out to be. Thinking that it was a gas that "The Bull" was the first person in his neighborhood to be strapped into Sing Sing's electric chair Stoke wanted to follow in his footsteps.It was his dad Mikel who showed Stoke what a fool he was in the life of crime that he chose that made him realize that being like Rocky "The Bull" Bulluano wasn't all that great. In fact it was bad, very bad, for his health.