Dave (Steve Cochran) has no ties, no strings. He is a super cool, super confident representative of a cargo ship's owner. As a "Supercargo" for the fruit company he's responsible for overseeing the cargo and its sale. But Dave, like any guy stuck on a ship for weeks at a time needs to "chop the lumber in his pants" when he gets to port. Usually he and his crew head for town's red light district to get their ashes hauled, and like any good group of buddies, they make it a friendly competition. This trip the port is Nassau in the Bahamas. The forty-something Dave, though is beginning to look a bit world weary. On shore he moves around like a shark on the hunt. He's eyeballing the concrete stroll for any stray split tails.
Dave (Steve Cochran) 
Dave and Carol (Jill Walden) Eventually he swims up to a beauty in a trenchcoat Julie (Shary Marshall), who is receptive to his come on. She lets him walk with her through the district.
Julie (Shary Marshall) and Dave
JulieDave: Do you work in that coat?
Julie: No, without it.
Julie you see is a stripper at Dirty Dick's. At the door she has a run in with Alex (Dave Bondu) the tightwad owner. Julie is the star attraction, she and Chata (Patricia Wolf) were part of a dance troop on it's way to South America that got stranded in Nassau when their manager took off with all the cash. Dave follows her in and watches her act.
At closing time Dave is sitting alone in the empty bar while the staff cleans up.
Waiter: That's it for the night Mister, we're closing up.
Dave: Well is Julie around?
Waiter: Julie? Oh she must be gone by now.
Dave: She asked me to wait for her.
Waiter: Dames, they tell you a lot of things, they all the same.
Dave: Yep, we always keep looking for one that's different.
Julie and Chata work for peanuts, and are de-facto B-Girls, they attract some high class fan clientele who buy drinks. During Julie's act Dave notices that not only is she giving him the eye, but she is also paying a lot of attention to a well dressed gentleman at the bar. The man is Dr. Franklin (Harry Franklin). The girls are also not below a little hooking on the side to help them pay rent or make ends meet.
"I got a sailor waiting...." Chata (Patricia Wolf) Chata: I got a sailor waiting, just chomping at the bit, and he's got two months pay in his hot little pants, you know what I mean?
Dave feeling stood up, gets up to leave and is heading for the door when Julie comes out of the dressing room. Dave is back on point and trying to score, but outside with Julie as they walk through the back streets of Nassau there is definitely an ember glowing between them. Dave is a user, he uses women to satisfy his carnal desires, but the routine of the chase is getting old.
Julie is a user also, she uses men through her attraction to make a living. She has an under the surface aura of desperation but she's still keeps up a good girl facade that she maintains for her survival despite her soiled dove status. However, she lets her seedy side slip out inadvertently during a conversation about the trouble with her lights when she and Dave finally arrive at her studio apartment.
Dave: You got to go through that every time you turn the lights on. What's with the switch?
Julie: Oh, it never has worked. There used to be a chain here but it broke a couple of months ago and I haven't had a chance to get it fixed.
Dave: I'll fix it for you.
Julie: That's what they all say.... But nobody ever gets around to it.
"That's what they all say.... But nobody ever gets around to it."
Dave and Julie share their life's stories and begin to spend a lot of time together. They go on picnics they go rowing around the harbor. As their relationship develops her life on the island becomes the six hundred pound gorilla in the room.
Julie: Why don't you ask me Dave, you've wanted to several times I've seen it on your face?
Dave: What you do Julie is your business.
Julie: I'm a stripper Dave, I take my clothes off in front of a bunch of greasy gaping men. Would you believe me if I told you there aren't any encores, that I don't do any private performances for any one customer at a time, would you believe it if I told you that?
Dave: Is that what you're telling me?
Julie: Tell me you believe me even if you don't mean it.
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