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After losing his job as a salesman, Reuben Flood (Robert Preston) finds himself pulled in several directions at once--trying to deal with a wife who shuns intimacy and mistakes his joblessness for stinginess (Dorothy McGuire) a shy daughter (Shirley Knight) who is trying to prepare for her first dance, a pre-teen son who runs to his mama instead of dealing with bullies--as well as trying to find a a job. He tries to comfort himself with a childhood friend whom the town rumor mill believes is a loose woman. (Angela Lansbury). In addition to the themes of modernization (i.e., not enough demand for horse harness, and the impending arrival of the oil industry), Inge's characters all face one set of demons or another on their way to the film's conclusion. TRIVIA A monologue given by the character Sammy, in which his mother was discussed, was used in the 1980 musical film Fame as the audition piece for Paul McCrane 's character, Montgomery MacNeil. EXTERNAL LINK |
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