Robinson:Mrs.Robinson: Would you mind walking ahead of me o the sun porch.I feel funny about coming into a dark house.Ben: But it""s light in there.Mrs.Robinson: Please.(She shuts the front door, enclosing him in he house.They enter the sunroom.)Mrs.Robinson: What do you drink? Bourbon?Ben: Look, uh, Mrs.Robinson, I drove you home.I was glad to do it.But I have some things on my mind.Can you understand that?Mrs.Robinson: Yes.(She nods)Ben: All right.Mrs.Robinson: (She prepares drinks for both of them.) What do you drink? Benjamin.I""m sorry to be this way, but I don""t want to be left alone in this house.Ben: Why not?Mrs.Robinson: Please wait till my husband gets home.Ben: When is he coming back?Mrs.Robinson: I don""t know.Drink?Ben: No.(She hands him one anyway.) Are you always this much afraid of being alone?Mrs.Robinson: Yes.Ben: Well, why can""t you just lock the doors and go to bed?Mrs.Robinson: I""m very neurotic.(She turns on some music.) May I ask you a question? What do you think of me?Ben: What do you mean?Mrs.Robinson: You""ve known me nearly all your life.You must have formed some opinion of me.Ben: Well, I always thought that you were a very...nice...person.Mrs.Robinson: Did you know I was an alcoholic?Ben: What?Mrs.Robinson: Did you know that?Ben: Look, I think I should be going.Mrs.Robinson: Sit down, Benjamin.Ben (in a panic, now standing): Mrs.Robinson, if you don""t mind my saying so, this conversation is getting a little strange.Now, I""m sure that Mr.Robinson will be here any minute now and -Mrs.Robinson: No.Ben: What?Mrs.Robinson: My husband will be back quite late.He should be gone for several hours.Ben: Oh my god.(He retreats)Mrs.Robinson: Pardon?Ben: Oh no, Mrs.Robinson, oh no.Mrs.Robinson: What""s wrong?Ben: Mrs.Robinson, you didn""t - I mean, you didn""t expect -Mrs.Robinson: What?Ben: I mean, you didn""t really think that I would do something like hat.Mrs.Robinson: Like what?Ben: What do you think?Mrs.Robinson: Well, I don""t know.Ben: For God""s sake, Mrs.Robinson, here we are, you""ve got me into your house.You give me a drink.You put on music, now you start opening up your personal life to me and tell me your husband won""t be home for hours.Tierney lost to a deserving Joan Crawford for her comeback role inMildred Pierce (1945).The other two nominations were for Best Sound Recording and Best Color Art Direction/Interior Decoration.(She takes another swig.) You the replacement for the bass and sax?Daphne: That""s us.And I""m Daphne and this is, uh, uh, Jo--sephine.Sugar: Come on.(She waves them in.) I""m Sugar Kane.Daphne: Hi.Josephine: Sugar Kane?Sugar: Yeah, I changed it.It used to be Sugar Kowalczyk.Daphne: Polish?Sugar: Yes, I come from this musical family.My mother is a piano eacher and my father was a conductor.Josephine: Where did he conduct?Sugar: On the Baltimore & Ohio.Daphne: Oh.Sugar: I play the ukulele and I sing too.Daphne: Sings too.(He laughs excitedly)Sugar: Well, I don""t have much of a voice, but then this isn""t much of a band either.The cynical, film-noirish, war-time film was shot on location in the small, story-book town of Santa Rosa, California - a representative place of sacred, wholesome, middle-American values where dark corruption is hidden within a family.