The Inkwell

Larry, a troubled teen living in the rough Red Hook section of Brooklyn, decides he wants out and turns to crime to fund his escape. But his plan involves scamming the neighborhood's biggest drug kingpin, a heist that's dangerous at best.

American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

Set in the 1930's, Birth of the Black Underworld takes viewers on a fascinating journey into the makings of the black underworld and the evolving mindsets of a pack of young would be gangsters lead by Satterfield Jackson who was an orphan taken in by respected Italian mobster Marco Ricci who has ties in both the Italian and Jewish Mafia. Marco and Satterfield develop a father/son bond and like any father would do, Ricci grooms Satterfield for the real world. The Underworld.