A psycho-on-the-loose story, about a burned-out newspaper columnist and his circulation-hungry publisher who wants him to turn the killer into Page One news.
Un convicto toma el boxeo en la cárcel y esto le da un nuevo significado a su vida. Una vez fuera, su entrenador lo motiva a convertirse en un boxeador profesional. Solo se preocupa por otras dos cosas, su madre incómodamente cercana y su padre ausente.
Coffy es una enfermera cuya hermana de doce años está en un centro de desintoxicación. Ante la pasividad de las autoridades de la policía, Coffy decide tomarse la justicia por su mano.
Emile Pulska is visiting his old friend Abe Stillman. During the visit they are attacked and Emile is struck senseless. When he wakes up he is told that Abe is dead, dead by natural causes, the doctors tell him. When Emile insists that they were attacked, his relatives try to give him psychiatric help. Emile decides to try to find the killers himself, but someone is watching his every step...
Elvis -en la que sería su última película- interpreta a John Carpenter, un doctor en medicina del centro de la ciudad que se enamora de una trabajadora social (Mary Tyler Moore).
