A child is murdered in a bungled burglary and the killer is set free on a legal technicality. Despite Stone's strenuous objections, the grieving father is determined to take justice into his... Read allA child is murdered in a bungled burglary and the killer is set free on a legal technicality. Despite Stone's strenuous objections, the grieving father is determined to take justice into his own hands.A child is murdered in a bungled burglary and the killer is set free on a legal technicality. Despite Stone's strenuous objections, the grieving father is determined to take justice into his own hands.
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- Mr. Hobbes - Sr.
- (as Douglas V. Fowley)
- Danny
- (as Roy Applegate)
- Real Estate Agent
- (as George Neise)
Storyline
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- Goofs(at around the 2:00 min. mark) When Hobbes enters his home, looks down and sees his son on the floor, the mail and keys are already lying at the boy's side. The next shot shows Hobbes bending down and dropping the mail and keys next to his son.
- Quotes
Robert Alan Hobbes: Lieutenant, you've got a whole big city here. The switchboard down there's loaded with calls, your file cabinets with complaints. You take care of the city. You let me take care of Artis Pierce.
Detective Lt. Mike Stone: No, I won't. I can't lay a hand on you until you break the law, commit a crime. You know it, and I know it. But the crime you're about to commit... well, that crime's the worst crime of all.
Robert Alan Hobbes: That's right. That's absolutely right. But Artis Pierce committed it first.
The one thing that could convict Pierce in Johnny's murder is an hearing aid that the hard of hearing Pierce, who claimed that he didn't hear his rights read by Inspector Keller, left at the scene that can prove that he was there that was overlooked by the police. And it's Let. Det. Stone and Inspector Keller's job to find it before Hobbs finds Pierce and ends up murdering him that can put him behind bars as well. The good news is that Hobbs is so incompetent in doing his job as a hit-man that in the end he helps not hinders the police in arresting Pierce for his son's murder.
***SPOILERS**** It's by trying to gun down Pierce Hobbs leads the police right to him in his shabby hotel room where Hobb's is planning to off him as soon as he comes staggering home from drinking and pool playing all day at his favorite ginmill. But the real deal in getting Pierce busted is that his missing hearing aid is found at Hobbs' house by Inspector Keller but now it's up to the SFPD to not only arrest him but keep Hobbs from murdering Pierce before he gets to him. It was in the end that Hobbs butter-fingered attempt to murder Pierce that saved his for a stay behind bars for some 10 to 15 years. That by Hobb's messing up his sloppy attempted assassination of Pierce, like he did twice before,thus giving the police enough time to arrest him and, to make sure that it sticks, have his hearing aid on for them to read him his rights to hear every single word.
- kapelusznik18
- Sep 8, 2015