Its most memorable scene, now considered tame when compared toDumb and Dumber (1994), was the bean-eating scene around the campfire.We have to get them from India when they're just baby chicks...You'll have to teach him to talk." She instructs the clerk to deliver the bird when it arrives.As she writes down her address, a handsome, virile, bachelor attorney named Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) [Mitch's name recalls the director's own name, Hitch] bounds up the shop's stairs and mistakes Melanie for a salesclerk: "I wonder if you couldhelpme?" She plays along accommodatingly as an employee.The confidence operators stand there noticing the arrival of their next unsuspecting prey (another "sucker" or "mug")." Colonel says, "Don't marry the girl." You say, "Don't marry the girl." Congressman says, "You marry that girl, Kelly." What can l do?Gruver: l'll tell you what you can do, boy.You can go home and marry your congressman.You'd be better off.Major Gruver's redeployment would make it personally more convenient for his impending marriage to General Webster's daughter, whom Gruver described as a pure "American girl": "She is, first of all, an American girl, a girl with fine character, a girl with good background, good education, good family, good blood.C.Martel) and Tyler (Tom Howell) are playing.Viewed as a pesky younger brother, Elliott is separated and excluded from the circle that the older boys form around the kitchen table, as he sits behind the counter from them:Elliott: I'm ready to play now, you guys.