Preparing for a jewelry store heist, Bogey organizes a group of delinquents into a gang. By way of testing out the participants - the fences, the militia and the gang itself - he stages a fake robbery prior to the actual one, which “robbery” lands them all in jail. After their release, Bogey & Co. are the subject of a militia trail which provides the thrill of the chase, some daring but unsuccessful acrobatics and a friendly police front, alias “Student.”

“I haven't given up crime mystery patterns in Foul Play. It is evident from the very start who is the villain and who is the militiaman. The thing boils down to who'll outwit whom. I have replaced a criminal riddle with an ethical riddle. Can you fight against criminals using rather foul methods - guile, deceit? Where are the ethical limits to such proceedings?.... The discussion about morals is most important to me, more important than the moral which in every crime movie leads to the statement, ‘Crime doesn't pay.'.... I am making a typical crime picture using the documentary method, because I believe that what is true is more impressive - that classical drama may be combined with a documentary form of recording....” -Marek Piwowski

“This talent is fuelled by involvement, by a passionate human commitment. Artists of this kind always get it rough from officialdom: the truths they uncover are inconvenient, the situations they expose demand remedy. And they make people laugh, which is always dangerous. That is why it has always been so difficult to get hold of Marek Piwowski's films, and why he is still so little known outside Poland.” -Lindsay Anderson