As they walk along the bank of the river, Kit stands at the edge of the turgid water and points to an uprooted tree lying as driftwood in the water.After Connors left, a shocked Peter noticed he escaped and enlarged lab mouse Fred bloodily feasting on another smaller mouse.He was joined by his strident-voiced sister Vera, who showed animosity toward her brother""s busty, squeaky-voiced, "psychic nutritionist" Lorelei Ambrosia.In one memorable scene, Jo rejects romance and marriage to wealthy neighbor and childhood acquaintance Laurie (Douglass Montgomery) who has just graduated from college - he tells her of his long and faithful love, but she cannot accept:You""ve kept away from me ever since I got back from college.The film was shot on locations including Acapulco and San Francisco (such as the Sausalito waterfront and the Valhalla Bar and Cafe, Chinatown, the Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park, and Whitney""s Playland amusement park at the beach), and on Columbia studios sets, and features numerous classic set-pieces including: the aquarium scene, and the funhouse and Hall of Mirrors climax.