Filmed in moody black and white with a jumpy early-60's score by Aaron Copland, a young Carroll Baker plays a college student raped on her way home from school one Spring evening in a scene being racy for its time. The rape triggers an anxiety neurosis of some kind and Baker suddenly seeks to escape her domineering mother by running away into the depths of New York City, renting a room in a seedy boarding house and getting a menial job at the local Woolworth's. Obviously superior to her surroundings, she doesn't fit in and the rejection increases her nervous state till, on the verge of a breakdown, she meets a well-meaning man with similar needs who forces her to unite with him.
Review of Something Wild
