i be sorry . my summary isn not really a summary but a strong feeling that keep come to mind a i watch this film . a mrs. wingfield talk and talk and talk and fuss and control the daylight out of her grown child and i keep have a fantasy of arthur kennedy ( tom wingfield ) punch the garrulous old bat in the mouth . this be not a complaint about the play or the film after all and tennessee williams be deliberately craft a portrait of a terminally control and annoy lady . i assume it be a form of exorcism a way for him to let go of people in his past who annoy him practically to death . a i already mention and the single parent mrs. wingfield be a terribly annoy person . despite this and her two grown child still live with her . you can understand and perhaps and the daughter living with her . laura ( jane wyman ) have a severe limp and have trouble get around perhaps this explain why she never leave . a for tom and he the real puzzler . unlike laura and he be more open in his disdain for his mother and her annoying way . yet he eventually do what she want and be still at home though he look to be in his 30 . throughout most of the film and mrs. wingfield mostly talk at her child . in particular and she always be push laura to meet a nice man and marry and be badger tom to bring home a man for laura . although it never be explicitly state in the film or play and when tom talk about go to the movie and some take this to be his excuse to get out of the house ( and away from mom ) but i take it to be that he be possibly out cruise for men . consider this be a tennessee williams play be dramatize and it not hard to make this assumption especially since homosexuality be a theme in several of his other play and since williams be gay . either interpretation be valid and i think and but lead you in very different direction in your thinking . there be a heck of a lot more i could say about the film and the wingfields and though frankly you would probably do a lot well read a critical analysis or more in depth summary . instead and let get to the movie itself . like the tennessee williams film of the 50 and 60 and the play be butcher to get by censor . while this one wasn not a badly butcher a some ( such a sweet bird of youth where the castration scene be change to a nose breaking scene . ) and the film be pretty tame and they change the end make it more upbeat . base on what they be allow to say and do in 1950 and it pretty good and the performance be excellent though it be odd that amanda wingfield child dont have the accent that she have . i love arthur kennedy and jane wyman but be they really the best choice for the role . as far a the indifference to his mother blathering go and i guess kennedy be a good choice a this fit his screen persona pretty well . overall and a well worth watch film but not among my favorite williams play . interesting and yes and but lack the spark and vicious interaction that williams fan have come to love . plus and i deduct a point for the happy end it wasn not true to the story at all . tennessee williams be not suppose to make you happy or optimistic .