Plot SynopsisThe film""s opening title heralds the celebration of July 4th in an anonymous town in the year 1900:The nation on holiday! Fireworks! Parades! Picnics! Celebrating America""s 124th birthday! - but what was a little hing like the Declaration of Independence compared to the great event happening in the Sims household?In an upstairs bedroom where a midwife and family doctor attend the hero""s birth - a startlingly-realistic scene - the doctor lifts (feet-first) a naked baby boy from its mother""s bed and slaps it twice on its bottom.Filming began in Hollywood in May of 1955 and then moved to Texas a month later.Although the exteriors of the iconic Victorian mansion were shot in Texas, the interiors were filmed at Warner Bros.Which is it to be?Pearl: I want to be a good girl.Sin Killer: And remember that the devil is always aimin"" to hog-tie ya.Sometimes he comes ghostin"" over the plains in the shape of a sneakin"" rustler.And sometimes, beggin"" your pardon Laura Belle, he stakes out the homes of the worthy and the god-fearin"".See the way he handle on those pruning shears match her gardening clogs? That""s not an accident.That""s our neighbor, Jim, and that""s his lover, Jim...Man, I get exhausted just watching her.She wasn""t always like this.She used to be happy.Weused to be happy.He also mentioned the strained relationship with his angst-filled, ""goth"" teen daughter Jane, an unconventional beauty who was going through a phase with self-image and self-esteem issues, sensing she was an unwanted, invisible wallflower.