[Note: All three leading stars, who experienced troubled lives of their own, suffered premature deaths under unusual and ragic circumstances - a car crash at age 24 in 1955, a mysterious drowning at age 43 in 1981, and a stabbing-murder at age 37 in 1976.In the barn, she hid in the hayloft, and was able to strike him with a shovel on the back of his head, knocking him unconscious.] The film was remade in the mid-fifties asThe Birds and the Bees (1956), with Mitzi Gaynor as the female lead, and David Niven and George Gobel as co-stars.On the street, he obligingly picks up and waves a red warning flag that has fallen off a passing construction truck.]The film received only three Academy Awards nominations (without wins): Best Supporting Actor (Sal Mineo with the first of wo unsuccessful career nominations), Best Supporting Actress (Natalie Wood with the first of three unsuccessful career nominations), and Best Motion Picture Story (Nicholas Ray).