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The tale begins when Shelley Winters, a nightclub singer, goes to the airport to meet Colleen Miller, an innocent young thing from the old home town. On the way, Shelley bumps by accident into a male passerby. "If there is any damage to the chassis, honey." he says, "I'd be glad to pay for repairs." "Buster," Shelley replies, "you couldn't even pay for the headlights." Colleen soon gets used to the way New Yorkers (in this picture) talk, but it shocks her when a fellow offers to pay her $100 for a date.
That's just another cosmopolitan custom, Shelley assures her. But when Colleen goes out with Shelley's boy friend
(Barry Sullivan), she discovers that New Yorkers are not so broad-minded as she has been told. Shelley shoots Barry dead.
Exonerated because her victim has gallantly last-gasped that it was all an accident, Shelley is nevertheless thrown out of work by the scandal. "The main thing wrong with the future." she broods, "is that it gets here so much sooner than it used to." Colleen cannot get modeling dates, either, and when a girl cannot get modeling dates in New York, there is nothing for her to do. it would appear, but to ac cept the $100 kind. She winds up moiling for mobsters, but in due time finds a way (Gregg Palmer) to restore her amateur standing.