Plot SynopsisThe film opens with a pan down to a street curb/gutter in Hollywood with dead leaves.The curb is stenciled with SUNSET BLVD.- the image is an appropriate metaphor for the tawdry exposé to follow.The camera pulls back across the cracked, defaced asphalt with superimposed credits - also stenciled...even for a woman!"WARDEN: "...who wouldn""t do it...even for her..."MONTGOMERY CLIFT: "Prew was a hardhead, the tougher it got...the better he liked it!"PREW: "...who wanted to be left alone..."DEBORAH KERR: "Looks colder""n an iceberg, but she knows the score.And I know who taught her."KAREN: "...who was looking for a real man..."FRANK SINATRA: "He""s such a comical little runt.He makes me want to cry while I""m laughin"" at him."MAGGIO: "...you just have to laugh at him..."DONNA REED: "Sure I""m nice to you.We""re nice to all the boys."LORENE: "...to look at her you""d never guess..."[Note: If casting decisions had gone differently, Aldo Ray, Edmond O""Brien, Joan Crawford, Julie Harris, and Eli Wallach would have played the roles given to Clift, Lancaster, Kerr, Reed, and Sinatra, respectively.In town, as he watched a school bus pass nearby, he again experienced another flashback to his youth.the aftermath of the war and its physical and psychological effects upon the three male participants in the war and those left at home (wives, families, and friends).