Hard Knocks (1979)

A suspenseful and romantic tale of a young man Guy Montgomery Michael Christian whose whole life thus far has been a desperate escape from a tragic and dangerous past Idealistic as he tries to be a series of unfortunate incidents in the neon jungle of Hollywood lead him deeper and deeper into the mire of its seamier side until one terrifying evening at the home of a famous actress Josette Banzet Guy gets into a fight with her husband and beats him up so badly that he thinks he has killed the man Once again Guy is running from his past toward an uncertain future