The Grasshopper (film)

The Grasshopper is a 1970 drama film directed by Jerry Paris. It stars Jacqueline Bisset and Jim Brown.

She finds work as a showgirl and meets Tommy Marcott Jim Brown, an AfricanAmerican former pro football player who holds an executive position at the casino, though in truth he is only used as a celebrity greeter. They fall in love and get married, but when Tommy gives a vicious beating on a golf course to a wealthy casino patron who had beaten and raped Christine, he is fired.They flee Vegas, discussing the possibility that the casino patron will seek revenge, and return to Los Angeles hoping for a normal life but Tommy is shot by an unknown assailant on a basketball court, likely the anticipated act of revenge. Christine returns to Las Vegas to work as a V.I.P. party girl until she is persuaded by wealthy client Morgan to return to Los Angeles to be kept as his mistress. ........

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