The intriguing, over-wrought film is a tragic, coming-of-age melodrama from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright William Inge""s original screenplay - it was Inge""s first story written directly for the screen and he received a nomination (and the film""s sole Oscar) for the Best Original Story and Screenplay for his work (one of the film""s two Academy Award nominations)." They are looking forward to a night of sado-sexual escapades (beatings, pillaging, mayhem, break-ins and rape).Officer Flint was ordered to the area for "emergency rescue," as Axel climbed all over the revolving mechanism and jumped from car to car to save two children from a damaged car.Under her long gown, she wiggles and itches her foot and then embarrasses herself by losing her high heeled shoe.In the library""s reading room, librarian employee Alice (Alice Drummond) was gathering books and pushing a cart.