Hard Times

A man dressed in simple clothes with a hobo appearance jumps down from the boxcar of a slow-moving train on the outskirts of an anonymous town somewhere in Louisiana. He soon comes upon a bare-knuckled street fight run by gamblers, which he intently observes. After the bout, the man approaches the fast-talking "Speed", the backer of the losing fighter, asking Speed to set up a fight for him. They travel to New Orleans where Speed plans to match Chaney against local fighters at long odds.