The gunshots during her training session attract the attention of the bank-displaced, evicted farmer Otis Harris and his family (resembling the Joads fromThe Grapes of Wrath (1940), Penn""s homage to John Ford""s classic film) who are just driving by for a "last look" at their repossessed farm.Take a quiet look around for drawing pins in your chair.Or rat traps in your desk." According o one old-timer, "the boys are a bit restless the first day.New masters are an exciting bloodsport with them."As anticipated in the first day in the classroom, he is deliberately provoked and intimidated as a new teacher by the lower-school students.] In both 1945 and 1956, it was remade as musicals:Eve Knew Her Apples (1945)starring Ann Miller, andYou Can""t Run Away From It (1956)with Jack Lemmon and June Allyson...It is Walpurgis Night, the night of evil Nosferatu! On this night, Madame, the doors, they are barred, and to the Virgin we pray.