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It's 1928 in oil rich southeast Kansas. High school seniors Bud Stamper and Deanie Loomis are in love with each other. Bud, the popular football captain, and Deanie, the sensitive soul, are "good" kids who have only gone as far as kissing. Unspoken to each other, they expect to get married to each other one day. But both face pressures within the relationship, Bud who has the urges to go farther despite knowing in his heart that if they do that Deanie will end up with a reputation like his own sister, Ginny Stamper, known as the loose, immoral party girl, and Deanie who will do anything to hold onto Bud regardless of the consequences. They also face pressures from their parents who have their own expectation for their offspring. Bud's overbearing father, Ace Stamper, the local oil baron, does not believe Bud can do wrong and expects him to go to Yale after graduation, which does not fit within Bud's own expectations for himself. And the money and image conscious Mrs. Loomis just wants... Written by
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A LOVE STORY UNLIKE ANY OTHERS !!
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Trivia
The very brief glimpse we get of a building in Yale is not Yale, but CCNY, the City College of New York.
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Goofs
At the film's climax, when Hazel asks Deanie if she still loves Bud, you can see to the right of the frame that Deanie is wearing her hat. However, when it cuts immediately to a close-up of Deanie, she is not wearing the hat.
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first lines]
Wilma Dean:
Bud...
Bud:
Deanie, please...
Wilma Dean:
Bud, I'm afraid. Oh, Bud... don't, Bud.
Bud:
Deanie...
Wilma Dean:
No... we mustn't, Bud... no... no...
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he gets out of the car]
Wilma Dean:
Bud, don't be mad.
Bud:
I better take you home.
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Crazy Credits
and introducing Warren Beatty
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Connections
Remade as
Splendor in the Grass (1981)
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Soundtracks
"Auld Lang Syne"
(1788) (uncredited)
Traditional Scottish music
Lyrics by
Robert Burns
Sung on New Year's Eve
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This is a most beautiful film in all senses ; picture quality and colors which they don't seem capable of making any more in spite of all the modern technology, beautiful scenery, and above all two beautiful actors. I also loved the clothes Nathalie Wood wore during the film. Pat Hingle plays a character almost unbelievable today. Although this " frustrated love " is sad and brings tears to my eyes, I still cannot help watching the film quite regularly even though I know the end will leave me frustrated. There is a lot if implied rather than visible passion in this film ( its French title is - " la fièvre dans le sang " or fever in the blood ). This hidden, repressed passion is more gripping than if we had seen the couple simply lie down and get on with it !! But perhaps the passion is a little too stifled and a few short scences with more passionate physical contact might have satisfied the spectator ! But that's a very subjective matter. But I end as I started by reiterating the total beauty of the film at all levels.