Jack's honest but crusty attitude appeals to Sam, who offers him a job as handyman at his nearby motel.

She and Jack have several playful nighttime escapades along the beach, where she displays her penchant for antisocial and disruptive behavior.

However, when her boss, Ray, orders Nancy to have sex with a senator in exchange for a business favor, she objects and realizes her stay at the beach house may soon end.

One evening, while Nancy takes Jack for a drive along a coastal highway outside of town, a pair of unruly teen-age boys in a dune-buggy attempt to hassle them off the road.

Dismissing his accusation, Nancy announces her intent to tell police that Camacho meant to harm her, so she shot him in self-defense.

Leonard sold the film rights to producer William Dozier, who had a company, Greenway Productions.

Greenway signed a deal with Warner Bros in 1967 to provide a series of films, starting with The Big Bounce.

If this is their purpose, I can’t argue, but they could have saved money by dusting off an episode from Hawaiian Eye or 77 Sunset Strip and turning it into a feature.

Leonard says "Twenty minutes later, the woman in front of me said to the man she was with, ‘This is the worst picture I ever saw in my life.’ The three of us got up and left.”[4] In his 2009 novel Inherent Vice, author Thomas Pynchon refers to Mike Curb's score from The Big Bounce as being "arguably the worst music track ever inflicted on a movie.