Buñuel's sole English-language film, made on the eve of his return to Spain, is a peculiar portrait of American Southern racism that only at first resembles a Hollywood effort; by the end, it's pure (though not vintage) Buñuel. A black jazzman, Travers (Bernie Hamilton), on the run from a false rape charge, finds himself on a Carolina island, trapped in a hunting refuge run by Miller (Zachary Scott). The outsider warily observes the strange rites of the "white trash": Miller's handyman has died, leaving his naive teenage granddaughter, Evvie, in the care of the lonely, lecherous game warden until the local clergy can take her in. The preacher comes (in the fascinating form of Buñuel regular Claudio Brook), but not soon enough. The Young One is a warm-up for Buñuel's next film, Viridiana, meaning that this passion play of guilt and expiation plies no piety as regards racism or statutory rape. Harking back to Simon of the Desert, we are left scratching our collective head as innocent Evvie clicks her new high heels.