..well, hat I shouldn""t be seen with anybody that collects garbage." She waves goodbye, and then finds her father (Warren Oates) in their backyard painting signs - his profession.The theme of the film was possibly less offensive to mid-1950s audiences than it would be for modern-day sensibilities, due to the domineering and misogynistic persistence of the male star in bothering, pursuing, kidnapping, trapping and sexually-harrassing his floozy female co-star to marry him.[Note: It has been widely noted that it was inconsistent that the half-eaten female corpse never re-animated.Originally, she was overjoyed with acquiring the theater, but now mourned the fact: "Now I wish I""d taken a sandwich.Although desperate for a job, he explains cleverly that he is expensive and busy, but then decides to take the writing job and accepts her assignment.