When one of his mobsters stages an unauthorised hit, Manhattan crime boss Charlie Lupo (Broderick Crawford) calls in Nick Magellan (Richard Conte) an enforcer from Chicago in order to stamp his authority. Conte soon cuts through the undisciplined crime syndicate and the widowed Lupo begins to treat him as the son he never had and promotes him to the top rung of the mob. Lupo's hard-drinking, rebellious daughter Kathy (Anne Bancroft) wants nothing to do with her father's business, or with any of his minions but the steely 'torpedo' from Chicago has sent her pulse racing. But when Kathy has to fight for Magellan's affections with her father's platinum blonde mistress (Marilyn Maxwell) the newly formed 'father-son' relationship is set to explode...
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