"[Flashback: 17 year-old Clark argued with his father Jonathan during a car ride.He was frustrated that his adoptive parents wanted him to maintain the Kent tradition of farming the land, and he angrily rejected them: "Your family, not mine.The film concludes with Charlotte""s lavishing of attention on his young, emotionally-unstable teenage daughter Tina (caused by another domineering mother) (an uncredited Janis Wilson) - her motherly love serves as a remote substitute for the couple""s own romantically-complicated love.She explicity states his well-known reputation: "You""re he meanest boy in town...(Jail) That""s where you""ll be some day, Tom Powers!"Tom is the son of a policeman, Officer Powers (Purnell Pratt) - a harsh, abusive father who often uses a wide leather razor strop to discipline his near-delinquent offspring.As she auditioned with her first song: "Dinah" in the frontier honky-tonk - assisted by the saloon""s piano player Joe (Jimmy Conlin), her refined soprano voice was out of place and she was not appreciated by the uncouth and boisterous patrons....They dismount in front of the South Texas R.R.Administration Offices, as two more join them to make a total of seven.When he leader of the group Pike Bishop (William Holden) walks six of hem in formation toward the Starbuck bank, the railroad office bank, he accidentally bumps into an elderly lady.