to let her go, keeping the door locked. He holds her captive in the apartment, but she refuses to have anything to do with him. One night, Mike proposes to Mary Ann and she rejects him, saying she just cannot. He again attempts to be physical with her. Mary Ann reveals to Mike that she was the one who blinded him in one eye. Mike still insists he needs her. When Mary Ann discovers the door unlocked, she leaves, walking through the city and sleeping in Central Park. She later returns to Mike's apartment, and when he asks why she has returned, she says "I came for you." She writes her mother, who comes to the apartment and is shocked to see where and with whom Mary Ann lives. She has married Mike and announces that she is pregnant (if by Mike or the rape is not revealed). Her mother insists that she come home, and Mary Ann tries to impress upon her mother that she now considers the apartment her home. Cast Production Jack Garfein had made his debut as film director with End as a Man (1957). He formed Prometheus Productions with his wife Carroll Baker. It obtained film rights to Mary Ann, the first novel by Alex Karmel, published in 1958. Karmel and Garfein wrote the script, and United Artists agreed to finance. It was originally called Something Wild in the City. The score for the film was by American composer Aaron Copland. Morton Feldman was originally commissioned to compose the score, but when Garfein heard the music, he reportedly said "My wife is being raped and you write celesta music?" and promptly replaced Feldman with Copland. In 1964, Copland reused some of the film's themes in his symphonic work Music for a Great City. The original film score, taken from private session recordings preserved by the director, was finally released on CD in 2003. The opening title sequence, which featured sped-up city imagery, was created by Saul Bass. Director of photography Eugen Schüfftan was a noted German cinematographer and inventor of the Schüfftan process who went on to win the Academy Award for Best Cinematography the following year for The Hustler. The film was shot on location in New York City. The supporting cast included Jean Stapleton, playing Mary Ann's boisterous rooming-house neighbor, and Doris Roberts, portraying Mary Ann's store co-worker. Release Something Wild had its