Me and my partner, Sourdough, live fifteen miles from your cousin." A bit apprehensive by the appearance of the two scruffy men, Letty fled back into Roddy's arms for reassurance, and the urbane cattle rancher promised to check on her: "I'll stop off on my way back to see how you're makin' out - ".Vincent's conducted the murders in retaliation for (1) Zasa's hitmen personally attacking him in his own home when he was sleeping with journalist Grace Hamilton (Bridget Fonda), and (2) conspiring to assassinate Michael during a massacre of mob bosses in an Atlantic City hotel meeting (by a helicopter/machine gun attack).Behind wooden-framed, glass partitions off the lobby, two other middle-class, misunderstood, alienated teenagers are also being held for their anti-social behavior: a pretty, unloved girl named Judy (Natalie Wood) in a bright-red outfit with matching red lipstick, and an emotionally-disturbed, anguished 'orphan' named John ('Plato') (Sal Mineo).One of these seventy-seven men was Staff Sergeant Raymond Shaw.Raymond Shaw was returned from combat and flown directly to Washington to be decorated personally by the President of the United States.