A Los Angeles taxi driver helps a distraught woman on the run from gangsters after they murder her husband and young son.

Two young hitchhikers are picked up a speed-crazed young woman, who tears around the countryside. She leaves them to take the blame for her activities, and they find themselves sentenced to six months in prison. The girl, feeling bad about what she did to them, resolves to break them out of the prison

A Vietnam veteran gets caught in a mob war with a couple of double-crossers.

A private investigator is confronted by the police AND the mob about the killing of a former private-eye associate.