`Doc` Riedenschneider, legendary crime `brain` just out of prison, has a
brilliant plan for a million-dollar burglary. To pull it off, he recruits safecracker
Louis, driver Gus, financial backer Emmerich, and strong-arm man Dix
Handley. At first the plan goes like clockwork, but little accidents accumulate
and each partner proves to have his own fatal weakness. In the background
is a pervasive, grimy urban malaise.