" [The reason for the film""s title is never explicitly explained within he film.] The tale opens on a foggy night with the docking of the shipSan Luisat the small, exotic port of Barranca in Ecuador:BARRANCAPort of call for the South American banana boats.It received eight Academy Award nominations (with one win, for its uncredited Assistant Directors Paul Wing and Clem Beauchamp, who directed the action sequences).Judith Traherne, or don""t names matter?Dr.Steele: Hmm.Judith: I mean, to that cold scientific eye of yours.We""re just little guinea pigs, aren""t we? So glad to have met you, Doctor.(She urns to Ann to leave.)Dr.Steele: Where did you get those burns?Judith: What burns?Dr.Steele: On your right hand here, between the first two fingers.Judith: Well, I never noticed them before.Dr.Steele: I see, will you come in here a minute, please?In his inner office during her first exam, she continues o be defiant, flippant and seemingly invincible, but nervously edgy in her movements, vulnerable and intensely frightened on the inside.At the ruins of Calima, thousands of years old (according to Ari), Leo and the group ran inside, although they found it was deserted." The accommodations - a cramped upper-floor bunkhouse was dirty and unsatisfactory for McCabe""s tastes and he complained: "I wouldn""t stay up there for free if you had a goddamn San Francisco whore in every bed.