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Did anyone feel sad during the scene when Milner drops Carol off?


I did knowing it was the last time you'd get to see Carol in the movie (I haven't seen More American Graffiti and have no desire to either), I thought the scenes with Milner and Carol were the best.

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Yes, because it seemed like they had developed a nice big-brother, little-sister relationship. In 1962, nobody would have had a second thought about it. Today, heads would explode if a guy in his twenties even spoke to a twelve-year-old girl, let alone if she spent the evening hanging out with him. We live in a sad time.

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Yeah I agree. I just rewatched The Major and the Minor. In it Ray Milland comforts what he thinks is a 12year old girl afraid of the thunder. Posters were saying it was creepy. Geez. So many people are so perverse these days

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Good point. Today's audience would start shouting "CREEPY!" the moment she got in the car with him.

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I did. I would have shown her father being abusive just to push it a bit more.

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