Presented in conjunction with our series, "What Freud Forgot: The Mother-Daughter Plot." Here, the game is the mother-daughter love match, played out on the tennis court where young Florence (Sally Forrest) pushes herself to the limit to fulfill her mother's dream. Claire Trevor as the mother follows in the screen tradition of Mildred Pierce and other moms who unwittingly sacrifice their daughters to upward mobility. But Lupino's focus is a more contemporary, protofeminist one in that it falls mostly on the complexities of the relationship between the two women, and of both to the world. Her depiction of the middle-class family is as tireless as Sirk's-parents living vicariously through their children, children flitting between conformity and confrontation and finally giving it back double to their hapless elders. And it is as nuanced as Nick Ray's: the passivity of the all-American father is, as it turns out, at least as damaging as the aggressiveness of the all-suburban mother.