Pamela Tiffin

Academy Award. winner Geraldine Page stars as the spinster Alma. Laurence Harvey is Doctor John Buchanan, the handsome young man Alma has loved since childhood. But when a sultry vamp appears (Rita Moreno), the doctor falls hard, descending into a seamy nightlife and leaving Alma's dreams behind like forgotten embers.

Fearing that a large shipment of whiskey may not reach its destination, a colonel assigns Captain Paul Slater to safeguard the cargo until it arrives.