Howard Franklin wrote and directed this film noir character study based on the famed New York Daily News photographer Weegee. Joe Pesci plays a character named Bernstein, a freelance photographer for the New York City tabloids of the 1940s. His life is dedicated to his work; with a police radio under the dashboard of his car and a darkroom in his trunk, he quickly and efficiently races to the scene of crimes, accidents and murders to snap photographs of gangsters, politicians, cops, and prostitutes, which he promptly delivers to the newspapers. His knack for arriving at a crime scene before the police earns him the nickname the Great Bernzini. The trouble begins for Bernstein when he agrees to look up a gangster for Kay (Barbara Hershey), the sexy owner of a fancy Manhattan nightclub. After making inquiries, Bernstein traces the man Kay is looking for, but he turns up dead. When he informs the police, he becomes a suspect in the murder; it also turns out that the FBI is interested the case. Bernstein then uncovers an elaborate conspiracy concerning gas rationing, the mob, and the government. 1972

1. The Public Eye
2. Nightime Developments
3. The Meat Market
4. Flying Home
5. An Artist Once
6. The Bureau At Night
7. Pictures In The Dark
8. Topsy
9. The Great Bernzini
10. Many Questions?
11. Cafe Society Blues - Composed by Shorty Rogers
12. Portrait Of An Artist
13. Waiting, Then Calling
14. Undecided
15. Waiting, Then Hiding
16. You Would Have Been Surprised
17. The Massacre
18. The Kiss
19. The Public Eye (End Credits)