An art dealer wants to buy a Modigliani, which is tattooed on the back of an old soldier.

An ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter-in-law of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them.

“Popeye” Doyle travels to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York.