Adam at Six A.M.

Directed by Robert Scheerer

With Michael Douglas, Lee Purcell, Joe Don Baker, Louise Latham and Charles Aidman

A disenchanted young Professor of Semantics at a California college learns of a distant relative's death in Missouri. He journeys cross-country to the funeral, then decides to spend the summer there and work as a laborer for a power-line company. In time, he meets a girl and falls in love but then faces an important decision as to which direction he wants his life to go.