It's the time before WWI in middle America. The Winfields are upwardly mobile and moving into a bigger house. Nobody seems to like it except the father. Marjorie Winfield (Doris Day) is the baseball playing tomboy. It's a spanking meet-cute with her neighbor William Sherman (Gordon MacRae). He's cynical, hates baseball, and many of the old traditional conventions including marriage. Moonlight Bay is the local carnival hangout.
I don't like MacRae's interpretation of the role. He should be the progenitor of the hippie movement. He's playing the angry revolutionary and I don't see Marjorie going for that. At the very least, he should be a commie, but that would be impossible for the 50's. He's the only revolutionary in the world wearing a letterman jacket or a fur coat. The letter incident is extremely stupid. He couldn't even bother reading what he stole. That's one stupid kid. Doris Day is doing the impossibly clean cut 50's girl. The comedy is all very 50's and rather golly-gee. That's probably why everybody loved it back then. It's a 50's classic.
I don't like MacRae's interpretation of the role. He should be the progenitor of the hippie movement. He's playing the angry revolutionary and I don't see Marjorie going for that. At the very least, he should be a commie, but that would be impossible for the 50's. He's the only revolutionary in the world wearing a letterman jacket or a fur coat. The letter incident is extremely stupid. He couldn't even bother reading what he stole. That's one stupid kid. Doris Day is doing the impossibly clean cut 50's girl. The comedy is all very 50's and rather golly-gee. That's probably why everybody loved it back then. It's a 50's classic.