The first in a triple bill of matinee melodramas directed by Irving Rapper, shown on consecutive afternoons, is based on Herman Wouk's bestseller, starring Gene Kelly and Natalie Wood.
Free of family ties and a boyfriend, innocent 18-year-old Marjorie spends a summer in search of romance but finds herself torn between her morals and a passion she is unable to contain.
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(1958, U) (S) **
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