Val Cade is a famous, wealthy, sought
after photographer - he likes a drink and he likes women.
Juana is a beautiful,
17 year old Mexican girl, with long black hair, coffee and cream coloured skin,
a mouth that is a promise of sensuous dreams and a voluptuous body. Cade
meets his match in Juana, a girl who would reduce him to a ruined wreck,
nearly beaten to death by America's white backlash, a useless slovenly lush,
hounded and hopeless. But she looks unbelievably good when he first sees her in
a tiny bikini, on a beach in Acapulco...
Chase returns to his favorite theme of ill-fated passion of a
man for an unlikely woman once again, years after he had written the
soul-searing Eve (1945) and
the tragic But A Short Time
To Live (1951).
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