]And pianist Sam""s role (portrayed by "Dooley" Wilson - who was actually a drummer) was originally to be taken by a female (either Hazel Scott, Lena Horne, or Ella Fitzgerald).Plot SynopsisMajor Gruver""s Japanese Mission - To Dissuade Airman Kelly""s Intercultural Romance:As the lengthy film opened during the Korean War in 1951, West-Point educated Air Force Major Lloyd "Ace" Gruver (Marlon Brando) from Richmond, Virginia, with a slurred southern accent, was being ordered o be transferred from the warfront in Korea (due to the excuse of "combat fatigue") and redeployed and stationed at a Japanese air base in Kobe.It""s looking for you, and it will find you if you want it to."The next morning, "Mr.Anderson" (Neo) was late for work at his software development company Metacortex in a downtown area, where he was a computer software programmer.He manufactures adulterous evidence for clients to collect payoff fees ("the big squeeze").[In Roman Polanski""sChinatown (1974), detective J.J.Gittes has a similar occupation as a divorce specialist].As a ""bedroom"" detective, his devoted secretary Velda is used as date-bait to snare potentially adulterous husbands.There, a young, newly-arrived (a month earlier), innocent-looking Puerto Rican girl, Maria (Natalie Wood in her second adult film role), speaks in a heavy accent to Anita (Rita Moreno) while she makes alterations to Maria""s dress for the evening""s dance.