**SPOILERS** Suddenly out of nowhere Johnny Rico, Steven Ritch,shows up at free-lance photographer's Mike Kovac's, Charles Bronson, father Anton's,Ludwig Stossel,photo shop wanting to buy a number of photos that old man Kovac took of his parents some 30 years ago. Before Mr. Kovac could find the photo's Johnny is gunned down in front of the store with Mike ducking for his life as a car with a tommy gun toting hit-man blows Johnny away!
Johnny who was voted in his high school class as the boy most likely to end up behind bars or in an early grave was also the person who stole Mike's first camera a Kodak Brownie. Johnny's death was no big loss to the world at large but to his girlfriend and faïence Lorraine Johnson, May Wynn, he meant everything. Kovac who knew Lorraine like he did Johnny from high school went to see the grieving young woman, who didn't seem that distraught at all over Johnny's death, to console her but instead ended up doing her bidding, by thinking he'll get a big story, in not only tracking down Johnn's murderer and bringing him to justice but also getting involve with those who hired him to do Johnny In! The notorious Tennuto Mob headed by top East Coast mobster Joe Tennuto, Robert Osterloh!
Kovac really got himself into a fix by, on Lorraine's insistence, secretly photographing a big mobster pow-wow in the NYC suburb of Riverbank. Those photos if published in the newspapers will expose all the politicians law enforcement personnel as well as members of the New York City and State Justice Department,judges district attorneys and lawyers, who are controlled and paid off by the mob!
****SPOILER**** Lorraine whom Kovac's handed over the film of the mobster summit before Tennuto's hoods grabbed him wants Johnny's killer to be whacked before she'll released the film negatives to Tennuto or else she'll send it to the police and local newspapers. The big problem for poor Mike Kovac, not Lorraine, is that he's the one who's going to be iced by Tennuto if the negatives aren't released to him within 24 hours! And time is quickly running out for him if Lorranie sits on them when the 24 hour grace period runs out!