replaced Eileen Heckart as the middle-aged, high school teacher who's afraid she'll live the rest of her life as an old maid, an unmarried woman. In 1950s movies, you were an old maid if you were 29 and a single woman without a steady boyfriend. Rosemary digs a good stiff drink once a while. Well, more than once in a while. You'll see at the Labor Day picnic.

This is of my longtime favorite Labor Day movie rentals. The action starts on Labor Day. William Holden plays a drifter in Kansas. He'd been in L.A. and there was a hint of him becoming a movie star because of his butch good looks, but nothing happened. Now he's in Kansas looking up a buddy from college days. The town ispreparing for the holiday picnic. The drifter, Hal, seeks some handyman work but everyone has the day off. He stays and helps a local family. Come to find out, the oldest daughter, Madge, is the town beauty queen and the girlfriend of Hal's old frat house buddy, Alan.

Madge has an intellectual and neurotic younger sister, an unmarried and bitter mother who's pushing Madge to marry the safe and financially secure college Alan...and Rosemary the spinster lives in the house too. Rosemary has a bumpkin of a middle-aged man she sees but she doesn't take him seriously in that conservative, dull town.

Hal enters with his macho self and carbonates the hormones of all those females. They're all repressed in a very 1950s way. He sets their hormones spinning like