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***SPOILERS*** Driving to the bad side of town to photograph a raging apartment fire freelance photographer Mike Kovac, Charles Bronson, takes a number of shots of the crowd that also includes Norma Delgado, Angie Dickinson. Within minutes Mike's flash camera is grabbed by a number of young thugs who were a bit upset at him taking Norma's photo! Unknown to the robbers Mike took the negative of the photo he took of Norma out of the camera before they stole it!

Paid a visit at his apartment later that evening by the camera crooks lead by their leader I.Q. Weston Gavin, Mike is robbed for the second time that night as well as suckered punched from behind by the "boys" who took the negative of Norma as well as the print Mike made of it! Not taking this lying down Mike goes back to the slum where he was robbed and tracks down the reason why I.Q & Co. were so protective of Norma and finds out that she's the daughter of just released big time mobster Marty Delgado, Robert Armstrong. Marty is being protected by I.Q & Co. from being gunned down, after he was almost killed in a street ambush, by rival hood and former criminal associate Herbie Kagle!

***SPOILERS*** As it soon turns out Marty's health is of no importance to I.Q and his gang but the $500,000.00 he had hidden somewhere in the neighborhood is! Finding Marty through his daughter Norma Mike soon convinces him, like Norma tried to do, that not only is Kagel dead, shot down in a shoot-out with the Albany Police, but he'll be as soon as I.Q & Co. get their hand on his stash of cash! It's when I.Q and his gang try to break into Marty's apartment that Mike comes up with this brilliant idea to get help! Take the $500,000.00 in cash Marty had hidden there, that I.Q & Co. didn't know about, and put it to good use by throwing it out the window! That's to not only get the attention of the people on the street but the local police as well! In the end Mike not only saved his as well as Marty and Norma''s lives, and had I.Q & Co. put behind bars, but got the exclusive photos of the incredible event that made the headlines of not only all the local newspapers but the national news magazines as well.

Mike Kovac takes pictures of a fire in a rough part of the city. When he takes a picture of bystander Norma Delgado (Angie Dickinson.) Some young punks steal Mike's camera.

Later they storm into Mike's apartment as they want to destroy any pictures he took of her. Norma is the daughter of a mobster Marty Delgado who has been released from prison.

Marty thinks that the punks are paying due respect to the old timer. They are really after his hidden loot.

Meanwhile Mike tracks Norma down by using a composite picture of her. Only to find himself in further danger from the hoodlums.

Marty might need to use his hidden cash to buy himself out of trouble.

The acting from the young punks was comical. Almost as comical as the muscular Mike Kovak being beaten up by them.

There was a good story there about an old time gangster who thinks he is still relevant while hiding out.

A young Angie Dickinson is unrecognisable but still alluring.

Mike Kovac (series star Charles Bronson) is just taking some routine fire shots, which include spectators watching the blaze, when he inadvertently gets into trouble.

You see, some punks don't want to see one of the those people in the crowd being photographed. She's the daughter of a mobster and these young guys are in the middle of an extortion plot against the old geezer, who trusts them with some stolen money from years back.

So Kovac winds up in the middle of this mess but, as usual, keeps his cool and knows exactly how to handle things, even when they appear dire. This was a very interesting episode which has a lot of genres mixed into it with crazy ending.

An interesting aspect of this episode is guest star Angie Dickinson She was around 27 years old and looked different. Maybe it was the hairstyle but her voice was still recognizable. Dickinson played the old gangster's daughter.

The old guy was played by veteran actor Robert Armstrong, best known, perhaps, for his role as "Carl Denham" in the famous 1933 version of "King Kong." I thought Armstrong's role was the most interesting in this story.

Angie Dickinson is sympathetic in this early role, as daughter of gangster Robert Armstrong as Chuck hunts for her after taking her picture in the crowd at a tenement building fire he's covering.

He has a run in with young hooligans working for Armstrong, who steal his camera and rough him up. Task is for Chuck to find the girl and get to the bottom of what's really going on with her dad, hiding out and protected by apparently a new, young gang of followers.

The star power of Angie and Armstrong gives this episode some luster when seen so many decades later, and it's campy watching a stereotypical depiction of juvenile delinquents directed by the famous William Castle just like a '50s B movie, shot on the back lot in Los Angeles pretending to be New York's Lower East Side. And though the script turns out to be really stupid, it's fun to watch in spite of its obvious shortcomings.