Shoot the Piano Player

While playing piano in a bar, the pianist Charlie Kohler is approached by his crook brother Chico Saroyan, who has been chased by two gangsters. Charlie helps him to escape, but he upsets the two criminals, and they watch Charlie and the waitress Lena, who is in love with him. The shy Charlie tells his past to Lena, when he was the former famous pianist Edouard Saroyan, and he quit his successful career after the suicide of his wife, waitress Thérèse Saroyan. When his brother Fido Saroyan, who was raised by Charlie, is kidnapped by the gangsters, Charlie has to take an attitude with tragic consequences.