Sensual, seductive scenes with my dream girl, Carroll Baker as Baby Doll. Mm! Her sultry innocence just melts me.
Archie Lee Meighan, middle-aged cotton gin owner, can hardly wait for the 20th birthday of his childish bride Baby Doll, when he'll be allowed to consummate the marriage...he thinks. But rival owner Silva Vaccaro suspects Archie of burning his gin down, and takes an erotic form of Sicilian vengeance.
This scene shows so clearly Tennessee Williams' anxiety over the helplessness and dependency of women. He grew up in a world where middle and upper class women regarded men as nothing but vile slave creatures, lower even than dogs. Men existed solely to give money to women. But without men, and their money, women became such pitiful creatures...living fates worse than death....like Aunt Rose Comfort. It was a horrible place and time, and Williams understood it.
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