He remarks that she""s no cousin of his.Laura Belle suggests that Pearl ignore his sneering remarks.Immediately, the volatile, tempestuous Pearl becomes he center of an emotional struggle between McCanles"" two sons, the older one - the spoiled, lecherous, vicious, undisciplined, swaggering no-good Lewt McCanles (Gregory Peck), and the quiet, educated, stable, genteel, good son Jesse.[Her wish, learned later, is to live with George someday in he Granville house.] Following George""s example, she throws it through another window.George curiously asks: "Hey, that""s pretty good! What did you wish, Mary?" For a second time, she replies with a sly smile as her answer, and then turns and continues down the street singing "Buffalo Gals." (From the previous film), Tommy had suffered "severe trauma at age 12," recovering from "brutal self-defense murder of a psychopathic killer.Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)A very dark and straight-forward horror film, with most of the filming done at night.One of the more heavily-censored of the films in the series, with numerous cuts (mostly of the gory killings) required to obtain an R-rating.And this was screenwriter/producer James Hill""s first film as a full member of the newly-named HHL (Hecht-Hill-Lancaster) production company (formed in 1953) - but it became the company""s first major box-office failure.