Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Natalie Wood | ... | Wilma Dean Loomis | |
Pat Hingle | ... | Ace Stamper | |
Audrey Christie | ... | Mrs. Loomis | |
Barbara Loden | ... | Ginny Stamper | |
Zohra Lampert | ... | Angelina | |
Warren Beatty | ... | Bud Stamper | |
Fred Stewart | ... | Del Loomis | |
Joanna Roos | ... | Mrs. Stamper | |
John McGovern | ... | Doc Smiley | |
Jan Norris | ... | Juanita Howard | |
Martine Bartlett | ... | Miss Metcalf | |
Gary Lockwood | ... | Allen 'Toots' Tuttle | |
Sandy Dennis | ... | Kay | |
Crystal Field | ... | Hazel | |
Marla Adams | ... | June |
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 Huggo
I found the film beautiful. Perhaps the best film ever to show the consequences of sexual repression. Natalie Wood is absolutely superb, both in terms of beauty and in terms of her fantastic performance. Warren Beatty, in his first film role, is fine too. Elia Kazan knew how to make movies. This "splendor in the grass", "on the waterfront", "a streetcar named desire", among others, are movies that remain in our memory, which made us experience sensations and feelings, which "touched" us in our soul.