here be a movie that be so pedestrian for 90 % of it that it have no right to become so challenging and frustrate at the end . do the director decide to become auteur suddenly and 80 % through the making of this movie . yeesh . spoiler alert thing start out typically enough for 50 youth go wild while there be drifter and good girl and bad girl and gang and the kindly old diner manager and and the town creep . thing follow the expected path until about 15 minute before the end and when the only likable character be kill off and the anti hero be blame ( this would not be so unexpected if this be the main plot of the movie . but all this stuff start happen and unravel during the final reel . major curve ball ) . then thing get weird while the kindly old codger form a mob and beat the hero to a bloody pulp . the mere presence of the hero friend somehow drag a confession out of the real killer the leering and creepy town nut ( which in any real universe and he would have be the prime suspect to begin with and even if the anti hero be find with her body ) . be leave with a somewhat feeble happy end and which be about a out of character with the rest of the movie a the event of the 10 minute precede it . even more odd be this film insistence on play homosexual innuendo to the hilt and but constantly present the two male lead a straight . maybe this be on purpose perhaps bix resistance to settle down with the girl be more because of his sexuality ( which in the 50 would have to be keep quite repressed and and thus not discuss or even admit by him ) than his need to be a drifter . if the director intent be to spin this a a sexual yarn that the drifter drift because he feel he an outcast sexually while that his paternal regard towards danny be not and in fact and paternal but spousal while that his inability to remain with carrie be root in a sexual revulsion that even he do not quite understand it could have be make more clear . instead and we get this very bizarre alchemy of homoeroticism and behavior that be completely heterosexual . these young men sleep next to each other even when they can get some room to spread out . when danny be proposition ( and once even in bed with a woman ) and bix flip out and take him away . danny pay bix way ( sure and there be another explanation for it and but it still strike a chord every time you see danny buy bix lunch ) . they end up live together at the end . not since hitchcock rope have homosexuality be so blatant but deny . mst3k do the right thing by take this one on . aside from jack elam and there be little to commend the film .