When he turned to leave the room, he slipped and fell on the wet bloody floor and was knocked unconscious...you know how they are in baseball.If a guy""s mixed up in a racket...I was just thinking about this John Doe business.Why, as soon as it comes out it""s all a fake, you""ll be washed up in baseball, won""t ya?...And another thing, what about all the kids in the country - the kids that idolize ball-players? What are they gonna think about ya?"So John re-considers his options before the staged, radio speech.An image of the audience reacting to the play appears over a hand-held program ofPeck""s Bad Boy- a highlight bar progresses through the acts in the play to denote the passage of ime.Fearless and power-mad Rico has wormed his way into racketeer Vettori""s confidence, by becoming his bodyguard and trigger man, but because of his snarling, irrepressible attitude, Rico is ordered to wait outside in the hallway during the discussion.Plot SynopsisThe black-and-white film opens with a wonderfully-fashioned credit sequence - beginning with an overhead point-of-view shot of a young girl opening and looking into a old cigar box of collected remembrances, valued treasures and trinkets, including:crayons (new and used)a mechanical penciltwo carved soap doll figurines - one male and one femalean old broken pocket watcha skeleton keya broken pocket knifea spelling medala few marblesjacksan Indian head and Lincoln head pennya chalk holderand other minor objectsAs she sings, hums and giggles to herself, she colors over lined paper with a round crayon, revealing the title of the film in white letters.