1.   Fernando Leon, a numbers runner with the nickname Benny tattooed on his arm, was getting madder and madder at Grace Meullins.

2.   He used to be a numbers runner.

3.   His memory for figures would be the envy of any numbers runner.

4.   Joe Mantegna is the father, who owns a dying burlesque house to hide his real business as a numbers runner.

5.   King is a young numbers runner in Cleveland.

6.   Ving Rhames does a brilliant job as King, transforming him from the small time numbers runner into the larger-than-life shuckster of boxing.