Convicted murderer Clyde Thompson receives the death penalty for shooting two men in Texas in 1928. When the governor spares his life, Thompson gains a reputation as the meanest man in the state while working hard labor in prison.
Ultima película del legendario Steve McQueen en la que interpreta a un cazarecompensas que se gana la vida capturando alocados personajes, que tienen cuentas pendientes con la justicia y siente pánico al saber que pronto será padre. Sin embargo, su vida corre peligro porque uno de los tipos a los que cazó ha jurado vengarse.
Eddie Warmack, an African American jazz musician, is released from prison for the killing of a white gangster. Not willing to play for the mobsters who control the music industry, including clubs and recording studios, Warmack searches for his mentor and grandfather, the legendary jazz musician Poppa Harris.
The film opens in 1945 with a young boy playing in his Chicago neighborhood, and then follows the adult Jita-Hadi as a returning Marine with heightened political consciousness.
