Gloria

“She's tough… but she sides with the little guy. And she's out to beat the mob at their own game.”

A book the mob wants badly enough to kill a family for ends up with Phil Dawn (John Adames), a young boy left alone when the men finish their work. Gloria Swenson (Gena Rowlands), the tough neighbor across the hall, takes him in, and John Cassavetes puts the two of them on the run through the streets of New York. She never wanted a child, and he has no one else, so they stay together.