The awkward, tediously violent "Angel Town" (citywide) introduces former world kick-boxing champion Olivier Gruner as a new French graduate student at a fictional local university--read USC--whose martial arts skills come in handy when he takes on a Chicano gang terrorizing his landlady (Theresa Saldana), who lives in a large, run-down, turn-of-the-century house.
It seems that some five years earlier Saldana's husband took a stand against gang violence in the neighborhood and paid for it with his life. Now the gang maintains a near nonstop harassment of Saldana's teen-age son (Frank Aragon) to try to force him to accept membership in the very outfit that murdered his father. It would seem that Gruner has arrived in the nick of time, yet before he's able to do his stuff effectively the gang manages to terrorize Saldana's mother-in-law into a fatal heart attack and rape Saldana besides.
