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Yet, Glasses is not as careful in his personal life as he is with his business, for he has blindly fallen in love with Gidget. Gidget sees Glasses as the one way to obtain enough money to help her true love, Rick. Her plan is to marry Glasses and arrange his sudden, accidental death after he has changed his will in her favor. The next scene takes us to see Rick and his partner Brick Travers, who have been controlling the smuggling ring in Edison, N.J., and are now introducing a new drug which is similar to green M & M ’s in taste and appearance, but whose effect is ten times greater. Brick has had enough of working under Rick’s thumb and wants to take over the whole business now, so he had been embezzling the funds and at this time wishes to be rid of Rick altogether. In the meantime, Brick has been having problems in his personal life and is caught between two women. Although he would like to go to Switzerland with the mystical gypsy Alamanda, he has found that Gina Krimson, his old flame, does not want to give him up. Gina is threatening to blackmail him with microfilm of the smuggling ring.
The first scene opens with Rick Westfield and Gidget Thorne who appear to be deeply in love with each other. Our second set of lovers are Hunt Manders, a husky, back- to-nature type of man, and Alicia Wentworth, who is the
pampered sister of the multi-millionaire, "Glasses” Wentworth.