Con-man Gantry is telling risque jokes to a table of other similarly-employed gents.He is lustful, coarse, loud, forceful ambitious, motivated by an easy dollar, golden-tongued, and often drunk.She is drawing a supportive, cantilevered bra for an advertisement.In a chair next o her is the San Francisco man who survived the gutter pipe experience.A disabled John "Scottie" Ferguson (James Stewart) [the initials of his name, ""SF,"" mirror the abbreviation for the vertiginous city] is recuperating with psychological and physical scars.It""s an eighteen-hour rip, which breaks down into six shifts of three hours each.Or alternatively, we could break it down by mileage.There""s a, there""s a map on the visor that I""ve marked to show the locations where we can change shifts...Same friend." Inside, Rocky""s perturbed brother-in-law Paulie (Burt Young) was awaiting Rocky""s arrival to celebrate his birthday.