David (Robert Young) is a middle aged architect. He is married to Claudia (Dorothy McGuire), a border-line simple minded young girl who can hardly keep house accounting and does not know what a mortgage is. They live in the country, where they run a small farm with the help of a pageant couple. She has nothing to worry about because she has a HUSBAND to protect her; not to teach her (after all, she is a woman so being simple and dependable is what is expected from her - apart from being a mother which she is not YET). She is still too attached to her mother -so they say although mother lives in another town - but that's anything that can not be corrected. So she is happy as only a child can be except for one thing: her husband is never jealous and it worries her. One day, a Bristish neighbour appears and, feeling ecstatic about her simplicity, kisses her. She asks him to repeat since his kiss made her feel how much she is in love with her husband. Sounds exasperating? Well, do not worry, there is more. Husband arrives just in time and realizes she can not be left alone since she has not enough judgement. He needs to make her grow up fast - not intellectually but in the moral way. This will soon happen, as her mother is ill and she is pregnant (finally!) so from now on she will be occupied enough not to waste time flirting but taking care of the baby (thanks heaven!). Have you had enough? No? Then just watch for its sequel: Claudia and David, filmed three years later. Best thing in the movie are terrific McGuire and Young performances: her sprawling posture, the way she walks and her noticeable slow thinking. Significantly the movie in Spain was entitled Claudia, esposa moderna (Claudia, modern wife!)
Review of Claudia
