An early Micheal Douglas {before the Streets of San Francisco}portrays him as a college professor who goes midwest on the summer break and takes a job doing "mans work". Along the way he meets a pretty young lady who he tries to pry away from her from her vice-like closely knit family.His experiences include being "branded" by one of the machines,getting in the middle of a barroom brawl,poison ivy but his biggest hardship is after proposing to his girlfriend ,trying to at least a word or idea about the wedding the honeymoon,where they will live afterwards etc. This film ends with a large container of vanilla ice cream being tossed out a convertible.this symbolizes the blandness of the family.