Two people finding love when it has passed most others by - and no melodramatic acting involved. The far better story by far.
"Everybody has their opinion, and yours is wrong." -Dave Barry
I agree that theirs' is the more interesting story, but it isn't about "finding love".
It's about acknowledging that the window for falling in love passed both of them by a long time ago, and now they must confront the sad reality that they are faced with two choices:
(a) "settle for what they can get" (each other), or
(b) live the rest of their days alone
Am I the only one who wondered just how physical their relationship had been (I mean in the years before their post-picnic shot-gun wedding)?
Roz Russell made me own this movie she took to the hilt. It's a drama, but she put her comic attributes to it.
She won best actress to me. Novak was dull & Holden miss cast badly. My audience at home talked the greatness of Roz & Auther O'Connell pairing. Those two stood out & helped this movie get most of the ratings it got. Support role hell, they were the stars. This movie was so miscast that Roz & O'Connell are why people like seeing it over. The role they played written beautifully & the music score saved it from being a catastrophic film.
Imre Demech
And poor, brave Howard - he was there, the night after the picnic, looking around at his little place, trying to see how Rosemary would fit in. Sure in the morning he was ambivalent, half-heartedly trying to break up with Rosemary,
before she steamrollered over him, but I think they were probably happy enough, once they got past the initial shock.
And he was there for Hal when Hal had nowhere else to go, desperately ringing that bell in the middle of the night. Hal knew a stand-up guy when he saw one.
Howard took him in, no questions asked, even though he knew the police were after Hal.
Howard called Hal "son" several times during the picture. So, maybe Hal acquired a decent father out of all of this?
I believe that Howard will remain in Hal's life.
Back to Hal looking around his place, no way is it big enough for Rosemary. She will want a house. I think she is through with living in one room.
"Two more swords and I'll be Queen of the Monkey People." Roseanne
Rosemary is also a cautionary tale about how spinsterhood (prudish attitude to premarital sex) can lead to alcoholism.
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