The film focuses on a Liverpool street gang led by Johnny Murphy (McCallum). When local Juvenile Liaison Officer Sergeant Truman (Baker) visits the Murphy household he becomes romantically involved with Johnny's sister (Anne Heywood).<ref name="movies.msn.com"></ref> He also finds considerable points of similarity between his previous investigations into the activities of an arsonist known as the 'Firefly' and his investigation of Johnny Murphy. Cushing plays a local priest attempting to heal the social problems of the locality. In a final sequence prescient of more recent shooting, Murphy holds a classroom full of children hostage with a machine-gun, apparently shooting one dead. The makers appear to have backed down from a murderous death-toll, as both the priest and the shot child revive at the end. The Chinese boy Alexander (Michael Chow (restaurateur)) is knocked down and completely run over by Johnny stealing and driving Alexander's and his Sister Primrose's (Tsai Chin (actress)) Laundry Van at high speed trying to get away from the Police, after being caught trying to set fire to a local Hotel, in an act of 'manslaughter', but is not shot, does not survive and is pronounced dead by the Police at the scene.
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