"Who you looking at?" Ruthless East-End gangland boss Vic Dakin (Richard Burton), plans a payroll robbery and blackmails various MP's over their kinky sex lives. Meanwhile Scotland Yard Inspector Matthews (Nigel Davenport), makes it his priority to bring Dakin and the gang down. He thinks he may have caught a break when gang member Ed Lowis (Joss Ackland) is found with clothes from the robbery. Matthews thinks he might be able to lean on him and make him talk, but will Dakin find out and get to Ed first, even if he doesn't sing.
A slight plot is fleshed out by Burton's meaty performance as Dakin, a thinly veiled version of real-life gangster Ronnie Kray. This attempts to show gangsters as vicious thugs, with little in the way of glamour and features graphic violence in order to do so.
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