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A young man takes over as the head of a crack dealing outfit after his brother, the gang's leader, is murdered.
An angry Vietnam veteran leads a Los Angeles street gang in a war on drug dealers.
How does retired cop Joshua Burke (James Earl Jones) get two career criminals, Manny Durrell (Sidney Poitier) and Dave Anderson (Bill Cosby), to follow the straight and narrow? Con them into helping juvenile delinquents turn over a new leaf. But how? Burke has never been able to nail the duo, but he uses what he knows of their seedy past to blackmail them into volunteering.
A struggling clown-for-hire finds himself in over his head when a petty scam to rob clients escalates into a dangerous encounter with ruthless criminals, forcing him to outwit gangsters to survive.
