《》Storyline
..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.They encounter "a great star act," featuring blonde, English sharpshooter Annie Laurie Starr (Peggy Cummins) - headlined by the seedy carnival owner Packett (Barry Kroeger) as a hyped-up entertainer with a flamboyant past:the famous, the dangerous, the beautiful Miss Annie Laurie Starr, direct from London, England and the capitals of the Continent.She kissed her child one last time, and (off-screen) left a note for the ostensibly wealthy owner to raise her socially doomed baby.Han sought out C-3PO's advice on how to repair theFalcon'shyperdrive, and learned the negative power coupling needed replacement.