Debbie cautioned Chris: "Don""t let your imagination run away with you." On a dirt road, they passed the remains of a dead rabbit, and then screeched to an abrupt halt before the outstretched figure of a man dangerously lying across the road.Catherine had become a spinster after her young, first love toward a handsome, but penniless, mysterious suitor and mercenary, scheming fortune hunter Morris Townsend (Montgomery Clift) had been thwarted by her stern, tyrannically-selfish father.She was to be assisted by three young girls sent by the General.Joseph Anthony (Eddie Whaley Jr.), the pre-teen son of the General""s cook, had also just arrived to provide interpretive services for Sister Clodagh.Loud-mouthed Norman blurts out his father""s overriding dream to move to California and buy an orange grove and ranch with the inheritance money: "Hey Ma! If Uncle Bean dies, Pop""s gonna buy an orange ranch out in California, ain""t he?" Norman eases that the move would separate his demanding, prim sister Mildred (Jean Rouverol) from her boyfriend, salesman John Durston (Julian Madison).