****SPOILERS**** Three time loser now facing, if caught & convicted, life behind bars Joe Pulaski, John Herman Shaner, in an act of desperation tries to get his hard working law abiding younger brother Vic Parker aka Pulaski, Joe Corey, to take the rap for him in knocking off a collage drug laboratory that he and his fellow hood Poco just committed. With his mom Mrs. Pulaski, Ann Morrison, going along with it Vic confesses to the crime that Joe committed in order to save his skin. Only to have Joe, who promised never to do it again, double-cross Vic and his mom by not only getting Vic a lawyer but planning to check out of town to Detroit and continue his career as a wanted criminal.
it's Let. Det. Frank Ballinger, Lee Marvin, who realizes right away that Vic is an innocent stooge and is being manipulated by Big Brother Joe to take the rap for him in a crime that he didn't commit. with both Vic and Moma Pulaski steadfast in getting Joe off the hook at Vic's expense there's nothing that Ballinger and his boss Capt. Grey, Paul Newlan, can do to change their minds.
***SPOILERS***As things turned it was Joe himself who ended up as usual screwing things up for himself. Being the career criminal that he is Joe resorted to type by at first planning to fly the coupe and leaving his brother Vic, by not getting him a lawyer, holding the bag and worst of all slapping the daylights out of Moma when she tried to talk some sense into him. Finally realizing what a low life creep he really is Joe for the first time in his sorry life did the right thing by turning himself into the police. Something which he should have done in the first place without getting his mom and brother Vic involved in his crime.
it's Let. Det. Frank Ballinger, Lee Marvin, who realizes right away that Vic is an innocent stooge and is being manipulated by Big Brother Joe to take the rap for him in a crime that he didn't commit. with both Vic and Moma Pulaski steadfast in getting Joe off the hook at Vic's expense there's nothing that Ballinger and his boss Capt. Grey, Paul Newlan, can do to change their minds.
***SPOILERS***As things turned it was Joe himself who ended up as usual screwing things up for himself. Being the career criminal that he is Joe resorted to type by at first planning to fly the coupe and leaving his brother Vic, by not getting him a lawyer, holding the bag and worst of all slapping the daylights out of Moma when she tried to talk some sense into him. Finally realizing what a low life creep he really is Joe for the first time in his sorry life did the right thing by turning himself into the police. Something which he should have done in the first place without getting his mom and brother Vic involved in his crime.
