komedie /
rodinný, USA,
1953,
74 min.Režie:
Edward BuzzellHerci:
Van Johnson,
Janet Leighová,
Louis Calhern,
Walter Slezak,
Gene Lockhart,
více...She knew her way around men!When pregnant Connie Bedloe's obstetrician recommends a diet rich in red meat, she sadly replies that her husband's modest salary as a college instructor makes this impossible. While walking home with her friend, Phyllis Archibald, however, Connie is seized by a powerful craving for red meat, and goes into the butcher shop to spend her cigarette allowance on lamb chops. Meanwhile, at Maine's tiny Mather College, Dean Edward E. Magruder tells his staff that poetry teacher Joe Bedloe is one of two candidates for an assistant professorship. That evening, when Joe learns that Connie gave up smoking to buy the lamb chops, he reproaches himself for being a poor provider and says he should quit teaching and go back to work for his estranged father Opie, a cattle rancher in Texas. Connie reassures her husband, but advises him to pursue the promotion more aggressively, pointing out that his rival, the obsequious Simmons, is having a dinner party for Dean Magruder. Meanwhile, at Opie's Texas cattle ranch, where the dinner table is piled high with meat, the gruff old man decides to pay a surprise visit to his son. Connie warmly greets her father-in-law, whom she has never met, and confides that she would like Joe to return to the ranch. Joe refuses to give up the job he loves, however, and tries to convince his father of the importance of teachers. That evening, after their fish dinner, Connie takes the vitamins her doctor prescribed and tells Opie about the baby, and he is appalled by her frugal diet. Visions of fish and vitamins torment Opie's dreams that night, and he wakes in a panic, declaring that Connie must have meat. Opie calls on butcher Emil Spangenberg and enlists his help in a scheme: Opie will tell Connie and Joe that Spangenberg is getting his meat cheap from an overstocked slaughterhouse and is passing the savings on to his customers. Pulling out a hefty bankroll, Opie instructs the butcher to charge Connie half price from now on. When Opie comes home with an enormous sirloin steak, Connie immediately sees through his ruse, but gratefully accepts the meat. Connie throws a dinner party for the dean, who is greatly impressed by the steak. Opie realizes that his son will never come home if he gets the promotion, so he privately tells Dean Magruder that Joe will be returning to Texas at the end of the term. As the guests are leaving, Joe innocently shares the news about Spangenberg's new low prices, and the wives excitedly make plans to stock up on meat the following morning. Opie tracks Spangenberg down at a butchers' convention, and promises to cover his losses if he will keep up the façade until all three women from the dinner party have bought their meat. Word of Spangenberg's discounts gets out, however, starting a price war among the local butchers and driving the entire town into a meat-buying frenzy. Later that day, Joe learns that Simmons got the promotion, and reluctantly agrees to return to the ranch. Just then, a distraught Spangenberg bursts in, telling Opie that the other butchers are blaming him for their losses in the price war. Joe is furious at Opie's meddling, but Connie takes her father-in-law's side. Later, Joe's students come by to give him a going-away present, and when they mention Opie's conversation with the dean, Connie is as angry as Joe. While Opie is packing his bags, Dean Magruder holds a meeting to announce that the college has received an anonymous endowment to be used to raise each teacher's salary by $1,000. Joe goes to the train station and tells his father that he does not want his money, but Opie insists that he set up the endowment for the other professors after seeing their joy at being able to afford meat. That summer, Joe and Connie bring their baby son Opie to visit his grandfather on the ranch.
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