Storyline

In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood (Robert Preston) loses his job as a travelling salesman when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife Cora (Dorothy McGuire) is frigid because of trying to make ends meet. His teenage daughter Reenie (Shirley Knight) is afraid of going out on dates, but eventually makes friends with a troubled Jewish boy Sammy Golden (Lee Kinsolving), and his son is a mama's boy. He finally storms out of the house when Cora falsely accuses him of having an affair with Mavis Pruitt (Dame Angela Lansbury).—Will Gilbert

Plot Keywords

oklahoma, country club, children, blind date, beauty parlor, automobile accident, aunt, stockings, running away from home, jealousy, family relationships, reference to adam and eve, anti semitism, loss of job, drunkenness, henpecked husband, 1920s, salesman, husband wife relationship, widow

Short Review

Dorothy McGuire and Robert Preston are a married couple plagued by a number of honestly observed domestic problems in a long but interesting drama...

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