Truck driver Johnny Horton and cigarette girl Eadie elope after a hasty romance, but after the wedding, the couple realizes they don't know each other very well. Soon Johnny's overbearing mother becomes the third wheel in their marriage, threatening its fragile existence.
Acting
Eli Wallach's desperate everyman energy carries the chaos.
Writing
Mother-in-law as legitimate marital saboteur.
Director
Don Richardson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach were married in real life from 1948 until her death in 2016, making their on-screen bickering uncomfortably authentic.
This 1960 oddity captures the tail end of the 'hasty marriage' comedy trope before sexual revolution storytelling made it obsolete.
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