***SPOILERS*** Having been assigned to protect mobster Tommy "The Hatchet" Hatch, Whit Bissell, makes Let. Det. Frank Ballinger's, Lee Marvin, life a living hell. He'd rather put a bullet in his skull then protect Hatch from his fellow mobsters belonging to the "Big Ned" Kennedy mob who he in fact had knocked off. But like the saying goes It's a dirty and someone has to do it" and it's Frank Ballinger's who been picked to carry it out.
With Hatch knowing that he's to be protected by the police to be a witness against the mob, his people, in an upcoming state grand jury hearing he feels that he's invincible and able to do anything he wants with the Chicago PD as well as FBI fully committed in protecting his behind. And Tommy's behind sure needs a lot of protecting. It's later that Tommy got a call from his sister in law Molly Peters, Noreen Arnold, to leave his high rise apartment duplex and come up and see her for some fun & games. With Hatch rushing over to Molly pad and have some adult fun with her he doesn't realize what's there's waiting for him. Hot for both action and, his police protection doesn't cover it, booze Tommy Hatch runs straight into a trap that been set for him by the Kennedy Mob. And it's now up to the police and Let .Det. Ballinger, whom he slipped away from, to make sure that he stays alive and breathing.
***SPOILERS*** By now the cops got an eye witness to Hatch's murder of "Big Ned" Kennedy that could land him straight into the state electric chair. But it's his testimony that is needed to put a number of Tommy's mob associates away as well. And that's where Let. Det. Ballinger comes in to make sure that he stays alive long enough until he testifies against them in court.
With Hatch knowing that he's to be protected by the police to be a witness against the mob, his people, in an upcoming state grand jury hearing he feels that he's invincible and able to do anything he wants with the Chicago PD as well as FBI fully committed in protecting his behind. And Tommy's behind sure needs a lot of protecting. It's later that Tommy got a call from his sister in law Molly Peters, Noreen Arnold, to leave his high rise apartment duplex and come up and see her for some fun & games. With Hatch rushing over to Molly pad and have some adult fun with her he doesn't realize what's there's waiting for him. Hot for both action and, his police protection doesn't cover it, booze Tommy Hatch runs straight into a trap that been set for him by the Kennedy Mob. And it's now up to the police and Let .Det. Ballinger, whom he slipped away from, to make sure that he stays alive and breathing.
***SPOILERS*** By now the cops got an eye witness to Hatch's murder of "Big Ned" Kennedy that could land him straight into the state electric chair. But it's his testimony that is needed to put a number of Tommy's mob associates away as well. And that's where Let. Det. Ballinger comes in to make sure that he stays alive long enough until he testifies against them in court.
