In Europe after the war, Jake, an American journalist still recovering
from his war wounds, meets an old flame in Paris. She is Brett
Ashley, a woman surrounded by a throng of admirers she cannot get rid
of. One day, Brett leaves for Spain so that she can marry a
wealthy industrialist. Jack is devastated when he hears of this,
but Brett remembers him and decides instead to live with him.
Science-fiction came into its own in B-movies of the 1950s, but it remains a respected and popular genre, bursting into the mainstream in the late 1970s.