C.M.P.)The film""s tagline was: "An opera star.A mountie.The Canadian Rockies." The studio""s blurb tauted: "Lovers heartbeats set to enchanting music."In fact, the film was a hybrid of the western and musical comedy genres - moving from its stage-bound roots (with wo operatic performances) to a more expansive outdoors setting.Body Count:5.BackgroundThe Graduate(1967) is one of the key, ground-breaking films of he late 1960s, and helped to set in motion a new era of film-making.Phyllis: Just my name.Neff: As for instance?Phyllis: Phyllis.Neff: Phyllis, huh.I think I like that.Phyllis: But you""re not sure.Neff: I""d have to drive it around the block a couple of times.Phyllis: (Standing up.) Mr.Neff, why don""t you drop by tomorrow evening around 8:30? He""ll be in then.Neff: Who?Phyllis: My husband.You were anxious to talk tohim, weren""t you?Neff: Yeah, I was.But I""m sort of getting over the idea, if you know what I mean.Phyllis: There""s a speed limit in this state, Mr.Neff, 45 miles an hour.Neff: How fast was I going, Officer?Phyllis: I""d say around 90.Neff: Suppose you get down off your motorcycle and give me a ticket.Phyllis: Suppose I let you off with a warning this time.Neff: Suppose it doesn""t take.Phyllis: Suppose I have to whack you over the knuckles.Neff: Suppose I bust out crying and put my head on your shoulder.Phyllis: Suppose you try putting it on my husband""s shoulder.Neff: That tears it...(He takes his hat and briefcase after his advances are coldly rebuffed.) 8:30 tomorrow evening, then.Phyllis: That""s what I suggested.Neff: You""ll be here too?Phyllis: I guess so.I usually am.Neff: Same chair, same perfume, same anklet?Phyllis: I wonder if I know what you mean.Neff: (Opening the entrance door.) I wonder if you wonder.After his first encounter with her, there is a clear mutual sexual attraction between them.In hindsight, Walter mostly remembers the pure physical magnetism he felt for her lethal "honeysuckle" perfume smell (purchased by Phyllis in Ensenada - across the border, she later tells him) - even though he realizes she had a strangely calculating look:It was a hot afternoon, and I can still remember he smell of honeysuckle all along that street.[The label ""chicken"" regularly sets Jim off, reminding him of his father who is a weak figure literally ""hen-pecked"" by his nagging mother - "she eats him alive and he takes it"]:Jim: They think that they can protect me by moving around all the time.He told himself: "Gotta stay awake" as he opened the medicine cabinet to take an anti-sleeping pill.When he had a momentary sighting of Freddy Krueger behind him in a mirror reflection, he dropped the only pill down the sink.