A notorious Detective, macho Low Down Brown, stumbles into a grisly series of executions in the Hollywood underground and is manipulated into protecting a pair of out of towners vacationing there who witnessed them, only to find the trail of blood and bullets following them around me be a walk in the park as compared to the aggravation of falling for the wife of the out of towners, a pampered, stuck up sophisticate who considers Low Down Johnny Brown socially, well, inferior.