His balding, 60-ish father-in-law Wade Gustafson (Harve Presnell) is in the living room watching college hockey on TV [the first of many characters in the film who find escapist entertainment on the tube], while waiting for dinner (a common occurrence)...I""ll rephrase it.I saw you in court...Don""t you remember one of your practical jokes that resulted in the smashing of a plate-glass window?.The married couple lovingly embraced in the doorway of their cabin, o face the wind together.[Note: The original script idea (based upon the novel) called for a tragic and downbeat ending - after suffering rape and committing homicide, the heroine Letty wandered blindly into the middle of the sandstorm and disappeared - to presumably die for her crime." After some weeks in the West Indies, when Elsa begins flirting with Michael - he is "gettin"" into more trouble.