The Grasshopper is a 1969 drama film directed by Jerry Paris

Jerry Paris

Jerry Paris was an American actor and director best known for playing Jerry Helper, the dentist and next door neighbor of Rob and Laura Petrie, on The Dick Van Dyke Show.-Life and career:...

. It stars Jacqueline Bisset

Jacqueline Bisset

Jacqueline Bisset is an English actress. She has been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards and an Emmy Award. She is known for her roles in the films Bullitt , Airport , The Deep , Class , and the TV series Nip/Tuck in 2006...

 and Jim Brown

Jim Brown

James Nathaniel "Jim" Brown is an American former professional football player who has also made his mark as an actor. He is best known for his exceptional and record-setting nine-year career as a running back for the NFL Cleveland Browns from 1957 to 1965. In 2002, he was named by Sporting News...

.

Plot

Christine Adams, a cheerful 19-year-old from British Columbia

British Columbia

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, Canada

Canada

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, travels to Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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 to be with her fiance, who works there in a bank. When the relationship doesn't work out, she tries Las Vegas

Las Vegas metropolitan area

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 next.

Chris finds work as a showgirl

Showgirl

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. She meets casino boss Tommy Marcott, a former pro football player. They fall in love, but Tommy gives a vicious beating on a golf course to a man who has abused Chris and it costs Tommy his casino job.

They marry and go back to L.A., where tragedy strikes. Chris, now 22 and alone, moves back to Vegas and ends up a prostitute.

Cast

• Jacqueline Bisset
  Jacqueline Bisset
  Jacqueline Bisset is an English actress. She has been nominated for four Golden Globe Awards and an Emmy Award. She is known for her roles in the films Bullitt , Airport , The Deep , Class , and the TV series Nip/Tuck in 2006...
  
   as Christine
• Jim Brown
  Jim Brown
  James Nathaniel "Jim" Brown is an American former professional football player who has also made his mark as an actor. He is best known for his exceptional and record-setting nine-year career as a running back for the NFL Cleveland Browns from 1957 to 1965. In 2002, he was named by Sporting News...
  
   as Tommy
• Joseph Cotten
  Joseph Cotten
  Joseph Cheshire Cotten was an American actor of stage and film. Cotten achieved prominence on Broadway, starring in the original productions of The Philadelphia Story and Sabrina Fair...
  
   as Morgan
• Corbett Monica as Danny