Angie Rossini, an innocent New York City sales clerk from a repressive Italian-American family, engages in a short-lived affair with a handsome jazz musician named Rocky Papasano. When Angie becomes pregnant, she tracks down Rocky hoping he'll pay for her abortion.
Acting
Wood's trembling vulnerability against McQueen's raw, non-movie-star energy.
Direction
Mulligan captures claustrophobic family dinners like horror sequences.
Writing
Abortion discussed frankly—shocking for studio-era Hollywood.
Director
Robert Mulligan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Natalie Wood was so committed she learned saxophone fingering to look authentic. She hated every minute.
Released months before the Kennedy assassination, its frank abortion plot helped crack the Production Code's dying grip.
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