When he finally locates the loving young couple, Steve has already confessed his love for Susan.Indignant that he has been dismissed and insulted by the non-nonsense musician, Sidney and Steve square off:Steve: What were you doing around my hotel the other night?Sidney: I beg your pardon, I haven""t been in a bowery in years.Each of the flashbacks is an idealized construct of her.[Whether the real Laura measures up to his adoring memories is open to question.] He begins with their dining together "the night before her twenty-second birthday.Just we two, happy, making plans for her future." But first, he recalls, from his point of view, when Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney) was still a young aspiring career woman five years earlier when she first approached him in the Algonquin Hotel dining room where he was having lunch.Gloria Jean continues to rehearse, singing the first of two musical interludes: "Hot Cha Cha" (accompanied by he two younger boys, Buddy and Butch from the billboard scene) and hen "Voices of Spring.Later, imprisoned within her own house and bedroom, Paula again hears ominous footsteps above her, and sees the flickering gaslights dim.Other stars who played convicts in the chain gang in smaller roles included Dennis Hopper, Harry Dean Stanton, Ralph Waite, Wayne Rogers, Joe Don Baker, and Anthony Zerbe.