John Cromwell

Based on Somerset Maugham's novel, this is the story of Doctor Howard's strange infatuation with a cheap and vulgar waitress that almost causes his downfall.

In a dusty, under-populated California resort town, Pinky Rose, a naive and impressionable Southern waif begins her life as a nursing home attendent. There, Pinky finds her role model in fellow nurse Millie, a misguided would-be sophisticate and hopeless devotee of sophisticated ladies magazines. But Pinky's hero-worship evolves into something far stranger and more sinister than could be imagined.