Plot SynopsisThe story begins as crippled Buenos Aires casino owner Ballin Mundson (George Macready), with an obvious sword scar covering he right side of his face (from ear to mouth), saves the life of a down-on-his-luck, oily-haired professional gambler named Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford).The persistent maid threatens to tell Gregory and incur his wrath, causing her further paranoia and preventing her from leaving.He surveyed the outside of Grutas"" home before infiltrating and setting his bomb to explode on a lower level of the house.Captain Dallas (Tom Skerritt) also died when searching for the beast in the air vents with a flamethrower.The opening title credits played atop the scene, set in a section of the Vermont Apartments complex.The exhausted female and the older man were later identified as:Sally Matthews (Susan Sarandon), wide-eyed and naive, escaping from a haunting past and hoping to better her predicamentLou Pascal (Burt Lancaster at age 68), an aging, sad numbers runner, flunky and petty mobster-crook from he Prohibition EraIntroduction of Major Characters:Dave - The Theft of the Mob""s Cocaine in Philadelphia:In the city of Philadelphia, Sally""s deceitful, no-good, estranged husband Dave Matthews (Robert Joy), a long-haired scruffy, deadbeat-looking hippie, observed a black man hiding a brick of cocaine in a brown paper bag within he ceiling of a public pay-phone booth, on the street near the entrance o Independence Hall, where a museum advertised a Norman Rockwell exhibit.