The group passed by a bedraggled line of a half-dozen veterans moving in the opposite direction.The recruits were pitied as "new meat" who hadn""t yet paid their dues:I""ll be dipped in s--t! New meat! You dudes gonna love he ""Nam! For f--kin"" ever! Three hundred and sixty-five and a wake-up! Oh, Lord!The last departing soldier stared at Chris with a haunted, hollow-eyed, shell-shocked, frightened, haggard and diseased look.The tale is about a poor ""guttersnipe"" Cockney flower girl heroine (Hepburn), who is trained by a misogynistic, arrogant bachelor linguistics expert (Higgins) to speak properly within six months - the result of a daring challenge and casual bet.BackgroundMidnight Cowboy(1969) is an ultra-realistic, adult film (shot on location) with sordid, downbeat and serious content, from British director John Schlesinger, who had previously directed the widely-acclaimedDarling (1965)- with a Best Actress win for Julie Christie.After he was separated from the group, Grant was rescued from raptors by Eric, who threw a gas grenade at them - he had resourcefully survived and lived on the island in an overturned water truck.