Alphabet City

Pop overtones in the opening of punk music-movie director Amos Poe's foray toward the mainstream, introducing Vincent Spano as gangster and dad Johnny, Kate Vernon his girlfriend, soundtrack by Nile Rodgers, in Alphabet City, 1984.

Rising gangster Johnny (Vincent Spano) has been making the rounds of the East Village, Manhattan neighborhood for which the movie is named, now introducing his mother (Zohra Lampert) and sister (Jami Gertz), in director Amos Poe's Alphabet City, 1984.

Junior gangster Johnny (Vincent Spano) and, as emerges in their conversation, partner, Lippy (Michael Winslow), safe but frightened in the aftermath of the slightly surreal police raid on the heroin hide-out they supplied, in director Amos Poe's Alphabet City, 1984.

A New York City drug dealer decides to get out of the business, but has to flee from mobsters in Alphabet City (1984).