Bob Rafelson

Harry is a wisecracking con man who owns a guard dog agency. When a singer seeks his aid after she is burglarized, Harry inadvertently makes them a target of hit men, an underworld mob boss and the singer's own sister.

A singer who discovers her Hollywood Hills house was burglarized enlists the help of the owner of The House of Bliss Guard Dog Agency, a wisecracking con man who makes things worse the more he tries to help.

Frank Chambers (Jack Nicholson) is a drifter who lands at a roadside gas station owned by jolly old Nick Papadakis (John Colicos) and his young, blonde wife Cora (Jessica Lange). Frank and Cora quickly fall in love, and plot Nick's murder. Waiting for wedding bells to ring, the body count rises, the gavel slams-of course, nothing ever goes as planned-and their plans are derailed one by one.

A syndicate wants to buy a whole district and rebuild it. The only one not selling is a gym called 'Olympic', where Mr. Austria trains. They send in someone to buy it but he starts to like the people and falls in love with Mr. Austria's friend.

Cello-playing cop Jack Friar searches for a teenage runaway on Turk Street and ends up in the home of an elderly couple. The house also turns out to be the headquarters for a gang of criminals who are planning a bank robbery, and Jack is quickly held hostage. When Jack is left alone with the leader's girlfriend, a master manipulator of the gang, he teaches her to play the cello and the two share a mutal attraction. Jack can't decide if she's for real...