Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.

An up-and-coming lawyer wakes up next to a beautiful woman with mafia connections, but neither remembers how they got there. That's a problem.

A powerful crime matriarch wants her eldest son to marry well and tasks his brothers with finding the perfect match. When he falls for a beautiful woman, he discovers her career could threaten his entire family's empire.

Lead by matriarch widow Hong Duk-ja, the Hong gangster family turns legitimate, but a figure from their past returns to undermine and ruin their popular new business.

A former assassin (Charles Bronson) comes out of retirement to avenge the brutal murder of his friend at the hands of a sadistic torturer (Joseph Maher) employed by an oppressive foreign dictatorship.