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
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