Dean Stockwell and Natalie Trundy are high-school seniors who are very much in love. They're also good people -- well, she is -- so they decide to get married. When they tell their parents what they're going to do, that's when the shouting starts.
In its day, the first feature directed by Arthur Hiller was undoubtedly called "sensitive", and it reminds me of some of the arguments around my household almost half a century ago.. but at lower volume (in the movie). It certainly makes an effort to be honest within its Production Code limits. It indicates the reciprocal yearnings, to be young ad free of responsibilities, ad to be accepted as an adult visually, particularly with the woman, via clothes, with Miss Trundy and her screen mother, Barbara Billingsly, trying on the same dress in a changing room.
The movie is cramped a little by the Production Code, but it was clearly made in good faith. If its 1950s assumptions seem a trifle dull more than sixty years later, there's a speech early on about the effects of the Depression on peoples' plans. Sometimes a little dullness is nice after too much excitement.
In its day, the first feature directed by Arthur Hiller was undoubtedly called "sensitive", and it reminds me of some of the arguments around my household almost half a century ago.. but at lower volume (in the movie). It certainly makes an effort to be honest within its Production Code limits. It indicates the reciprocal yearnings, to be young ad free of responsibilities, ad to be accepted as an adult visually, particularly with the woman, via clothes, with Miss Trundy and her screen mother, Barbara Billingsly, trying on the same dress in a changing room.
The movie is cramped a little by the Production Code, but it was clearly made in good faith. If its 1950s assumptions seem a trifle dull more than sixty years later, there's a speech early on about the effects of the Depression on peoples' plans. Sometimes a little dullness is nice after too much excitement.