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...added that other statements accused The Process of "eulogizing Hitler, sacrificing humans and animals and then drinking their blood, sex orgies, kidnapping, and loving dope...
...know, He, took her in the back and screwed her. Okay, I come back then to see what he's spending so much time in. He was into his thing. I screamed on him; but really, truthfully. I wasn't concerned. I was concerned with getting to the dope man's house cause I was sick, you know. The next day we got busted...
Born to Win is a problem picture about The Problem (dope). It is also about more than that-which is where other problems enter in. With them come some social commentary, some of the aspects of a conventional thriller, some comedy, some rueful drama. Trouble is, all the parts never completely fit together...
...addicted, I'm habituated." He roams around Manhattan's West Side scraping up money for fixes and getting into trouble. The cops hassle him. The neighborhood pusher cons him into running sinister little missions on his behalf and rewards him with insubstantial quantities of dope. J. tries swiping a large shipment of heroin, but some hoods catch him, strip him and lock him in a bedroom while they mull over his ultimate fate. He escapes by the wildly funny expedient of donning a woman's dressing gown and putting on a display of perverse exhibitionism to attract...
...named Farm (Karen Black), but the cops are soon on his back again. They want him to help trap the pusher. It is at this point that Born to Win breaks down into arbitrary and rather predictable melodrama. The pusher gets wise to the scheme. He unloads some bad dope on J., but J.'s buddy Billy Dynamite (Jay Fletcher) shoots it first and dies. Scared, J. wants nothing more to do with the cops' scheme, so they bust Farm on a trumped-up charge to force his hand. J.'s choice is excruciatingly simple: blow...