A hearty potato salad of mid-Fifties Midwestern Americana: class and upward striving, propriety and inner craving. Broadway director Joshua Logan, who staged the Inge play for the Theatre Guild, fully appreciates the themes, and is not blind to the scenic possibilities: the Kansas townscape from the skyscraper perch atop a grain elevator; the thin wall between the men's and women's swimsuit changing rooms; the waterborne entrance of the newly crowned Queen of Neewollah (Halloween spelled backwards); the screen door as a theatrical scrim. His gaudier and gauzier efforts were to follow. With William Holden ("You don't mind seein' a guy who's just a grain scooper, do ya?"), Kim Novak ("I get so tired of just being told I'm pretty"), Susan Strasberg, Betty Field, Rosalind Russell, Arthur O'Connell, and Cliff Robertson. (1956) — Duncan Shepherd
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