ONE HOUR LATER, during a fierce thunderstorm, the scene shifted to a gas station, where the attendant Walter Jones (Essex Smith) was watching TV.In his film, his first anti-heroic role, he was a bigot and racist - a tragic, lonely, morally-ambiguous figure perenially doomed to be an outsider.One of the film""s slogans proclaimed the rough love affair between the two stars:"He treated ""em rough - and they loved it!"The story was based on the unsuccessful 1928 playRed Dustby Wilson Collison.She""s 31 years old.One of these days, she""s gonna wake up and find her looks are gone and then where will she be? Well, no wonder she""s worried.