A Prohibition-era nightclub crooner has his career is cut short when his throat is slashed by a mob boss.

Follows the exploits of three teenage friends sharing the good times back at Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York during the summer of 1955.

A Confederate captain's younger brother is flogged to death in a Union stockade. The captain vows revenge. Two years later he finds the men responsible running a rustling operation in a small western town.

A series of murders involving a stripper are investigated by a hard-drinking reporter.