Summary
A chrome-bright Packard slices through the dust of Prohibition-era America, carrying Wall-Street marble-men and a jazz-sick daughter toward the glacial cathedrals of Montana. Claire Boltwood—bobbed, bored, betrothed—spits her chewed-up future at every whistle-stop until a prairie garage hurls a grease-streaked Cupid in coveralls: Milt Dagget, part mechanic, part prairie myth, whose patched-together roadster coughs like a blues trumpet. Lewis turns the journey into a kinetic canvas: the car a confession booth, the road a therapist’s couch, the mountains a jury. While Claire’s promised fiancé, Jeffrey, waits at Glacier Park with manicured cowardice, Milt tailgates destiny, yanking the Boltwoods from ditches, hobos, and their own gilded malaise. The final showdown—an escaped convict stalking the pines—becomes a morality play lit by headlamps: Jeffrey wilts, Milt ascends, Claire rewrites her engagement ring into a wedding band forged of mountain air and motor oil.
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Advised by his doctor to take a vacation, New York banker Henry B. Boltwood and his flapper daughter, Claire, drive to Glacier Park. Claire has promised to give an answer to Jeffrey Saxton, who wishes Claire to marry him, upon her return, but during a stop in a small Minnesota town, it is love at the first sight of garage owner Milt Daggett. Milt follows the Boltwoods out of town in his small "bug," pulls them from a muddy ditch, and rescues them from a tramp (an escaping murderer?). Jeffrey is at Glacier Park to meet the Boltwoods, but he settles Claire's dilemma by showing himself a coward when the tramp returns. Milt rescues her, and the two are married.
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