분야
hwp Oyster Blues plays. Serene view of short pilings in the
water along Bob Sikes Channel, St. George Island.
NELSON ENTERTAINMENT presents
An ANTHONY SIMMONS Film
Flocks of sea birds are flying over the shore.
JOHN HURT
KAREN YOUNG
A bucket of seawater is being hoisted from a docked boat.
Thelma walks by, underneath the hoist. As she walks by she
watches it being dumped into a bin, supervised by a man.
LITTLE
SWEETHEART
Also Starring JOHN McMARTIN
BARBARA BOSSON
Thelma, bored, watches Little Billy load ice into a truck
at the Happy Pelican. Little Billy performs a quick mime act
of pulling something out of his mouth and throwing it to
Thelma, who in turn unenthusiastically pretends to catch it.
LITTLE BILLY
How you doin?
GUY BOYD
Introducing CASSIE BARASCH
ELLIE RAAB
and JAMIE WATERSTON
Robert Burger is renting a creme-colored Buick from an
Isuzu dealer next to some railroad tracks. The notice in the
cars passenger side window reads AS IS NO WARRANTY, NO
WARRANTY. Dorothea tears the notice down from inside the car
as Robert starts the car and the rental employee shuts
Dorotheas door, and they leave as a train passes by.
with JACK GILPIN
ANN McDONOUGH
ROSE PARRAH
CLAUDE BROOKS
GARY BASARABA
Thelma is immersed in a rock video on TV at the counter of
The Happy Pelican "I Was Born to Cry" . The barkeeper picks
up a remote control and turns off the TV.
BARKEEPER
(waving her away)
Off. Outta here.
THELMA
Oh, come on, I was watching.
BARKEEPER
When age you watch. Paying customers
only.
Waves Thelma away. Thelma glares at him and backs away
quietly.
WOMAN IN BAR
(entering)
Almost forgettin. Its the Lords time.
(Turns on the TV,
blasting the rock
video again.)
Shoot. Thats devil music. Little girls
shouldnt be watchin that.
BARKEEPER
Go home.
Thelma backs out of the restaurant, glaring at the
barkeeper, and gently bumping into a lady seated at a table.
TV
...life and death matter with them. They
were driven to their knees, they
acknowledged their sins, and they
confessed. And they said Moses, weve
sinned against God."
Thelma is buying a pink, single scoop ice cream on a cone
from Mr. Manny at the
downtown store.
Based upon the Novel
The Naughty Girls by ARTHUR WISE
Thelma pauses to stare at a Polaroid camera advertisement
in the shop window, which reads Put yourself in the picture.
Next to the camera are a number of colored wigs. Scene of a
coastal city.
Casting by MEG SIMON and FRAN CUMIN CSA
Robert Burger is buying a USA Today from a machine outside
a store where two deputies are leaving. Robert watches them
go by, then walks in.
DEPUTY
(to the store clerk)
Well see you later.
When Robert gets inside he gives a cautious look over his
shoulder at them, but the deputies didnt recognize him.
Designer GERRY SCOTT
Dorothea is sitting on a round cement ring on the beach.
Editor JOHN STOTHART
Director of Photography JOHN HOOPER
Thelma is peeking in the exposed corner of a window of a
boat shed where her brother Richard is with Miss Marissa,
who is stroking his face and begins taking his shirt off.
Music by LAURENCE JUBER
Screenplay by ANTHONY SIMMONS
Thelma takes her paper bag of groceries and leaves the
window where she was spying, and goes into her house. Aerial
view of Roberts car driving along an undeveloped coastline.
Producer LOUIS MARKS
Directed by ANTHONY SIMMONS
Richard is looking at some prints in his boat shed
darkroom. Thelma knocks on the door.
RICHARD
Go away!
THELMA
Let me in! Ill tell if you dont let me
in!
RICHARD
What have you got to tell about?
THELMA
About Miss Ma-rissa!
RICHARD
What about Miss Marissa?
Thelma licks her dark popsicle but says nothing. Richard
opens the door.
RICHARD
What about Miss Marissa?
THELMA
Heres your popsicle. Mommy sent it.
THELMA
(comes inside,
stands)
I saw you.
RICHARD
When?
THELMA
The other morning. Two days ago.
RICHARD
Where?
THELMA
I cant remember.
Richard angrily throws his popsicle in the sink, grabs
Thelmas shoulders to stare her in the face.
THELMA
In your room.
RICHARD
So? She cleans the house for us. Shes
gotta be in there sometimes.
THELMA
She didnt have any clothes on.
RICHARD
Of course she did.
THELMA
(shaking head)
She didnt.
RICHARD
I was taking photographs. Im gonna to
be a photographic artist, theres nothing
wrong with that.
(Thelma is playing
with his enlarger
Stop that!
THELMA
(playing with
enlarger slides on the
counter)
I saw you this morning, but you didnt
have any lights on. You cant take
photographs in the dark without any
lights on.
RICHARD
Put that down.
THELMA
I can take pictures. Can I see the
prints?
RICHARD
(turning around,
emphatically)
No.
THELMA
Has mommy seen the prints? She doesnt
like Marissa!
RICHARD
You wouldnt tell her. You wouldnt
dare.
Thelma sits down and gives Robert an "Oh yeah?" look.
Richard relents and brings the prints over to Thelma.
RICHARD
Are your hands clean?
Thelma nods, Richard hands the prints to Thelma.
RICHARD
Something terribles gonna happen to yo
