***SPOILERS**** Morality play about the loss of innocence in the case of little Ignace "Iggy" Kovacs, Barry Gordon, who tired to do the right thing and ended up getting stiffed for it by everyone even his dad,Biff Elliot,whom he always looked up to. Iggy and his friend Clete Vine, Glenn Walker, were fishing out golf balls from a watering hole at the Dyker Heights Golf Course in Brooklyn when they spotted local mobster Mr. Rose, Dennis Patrick, and his bodyguard Joe, Harry Landers, work over this guy, David Fresco, for being late on his loan shark payments.
Iggy outraged at what he saw has Clete together with himself go to the local police station to report the incident. It's there that Iggy learns the facts of life on the mean streets of Brooklyn with no one not even his dad believing what he says and making him look foolish. No one but Mr. Rose who in feeling sorry for the kid, who in fact wanted to have him arrested for assault & battery, gave Iggy a $10.00 bill for all the trouble he caused him and thus let bygones be bygones. Finally getting the hang of it or where it's at finally has the once law abiding Iggy decides to live a life of crime and be just like his new found hero Mr. Rose when he grows up.
***SPOILERS*** It took 35 for Iggy to get the massage that crime does not pay. All that time Iggy grew up to be a hoodlum like Mr.Rose and in the end he ended up sharing the same not just jail cell with Mr.Rose but burial plot as well! As for Iggy's friend Clete he never heard form Iggy since that day in the police station but got to read Iggy's obituary in a local Brooklyn newspaper.
Iggy outraged at what he saw has Clete together with himself go to the local police station to report the incident. It's there that Iggy learns the facts of life on the mean streets of Brooklyn with no one not even his dad believing what he says and making him look foolish. No one but Mr. Rose who in feeling sorry for the kid, who in fact wanted to have him arrested for assault & battery, gave Iggy a $10.00 bill for all the trouble he caused him and thus let bygones be bygones. Finally getting the hang of it or where it's at finally has the once law abiding Iggy decides to live a life of crime and be just like his new found hero Mr. Rose when he grows up.
***SPOILERS*** It took 35 for Iggy to get the massage that crime does not pay. All that time Iggy grew up to be a hoodlum like Mr.Rose and in the end he ended up sharing the same not just jail cell with Mr.Rose but burial plot as well! As for Iggy's friend Clete he never heard form Iggy since that day in the police station but got to read Iggy's obituary in a local Brooklyn newspaper.