When a big rig passes, Nick challenges Michael to take a huge risk: "Pass him on the inside" - the first indication of his continual need o gamble and wager.Plot SynopsisThe picture is prefaced by "A PLEA FOR THE ART OF THE MOTION PICTURE":We do not fear censorship, for we have no wish to offend with improprieties or obscenities, but we do demand, as a right, the liberty to show the dark side of wrong, that we may illuminate the bright side of virtue - the same liberty that is conceded to the art of the written word - that art to which we owe the Bible and the works of Shakespeare." Cobby suggests Louis Ciavelli for the job (the "best boxman west of Chicago, expert mechanic, been in some very big capers, and what I hear, he can open a safe like a back of a watch - only he costs.The young boy""s fast-talking, eighth grade school teacher Miss Wynn (Virginia Farmer) also testifies about a "gun-carrying incident" at school.