Recently TCM showed this film, but the running time wasn't given correctly to my DVR. Bennett walks into the room having not seen her baby for two years and screams, and then that was it. What happened after that?
shareSame thing happened to me. I got as far as the visit to the pawnshop. Not the best movie, but not the worst either. Hope someone answers this question. Lesson learned: When recording TCM, extend ending time.
shareThe baby had died earlier that day. Given that the movie takes place within a couple of years of WWI, the child was probably succumbed to the Spanish Influenza.
Bennett comes down stairs in shock and walks back home. It seems as though she might throw herself into the water but she keeps walking. She almost walks in from of a truck but misses it. When she gets back to her room, McRae is there and tells her he couldn't stay away. She is still in shock and staring at him. She almost collapses but he catches her and the two of them embrace.
The End
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I didn't care for the ending. They could have written a better ending with some conversation.
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I re-wound the scene a few times on my DVR where Doris sees her son in his crib for the first time after 2 years. After she screams in horror, you can see a shadow on the wall of the child's hands reaching up to her. I thought the child was sick or was disfigured in some way, but if not dead, why would she not pick him up? No mother would walk away like that, even if he was dead it seems she'd want to hold him one last time (?). I was very sad and disappointed with that scene, I was happy her true love was waiting for her in the end, but disappointed again when after their embrace the move was over.
I too noticed the shadow of the baby reaching up to her. Clearly the child wasn't dead so I waited for an explanation but none came. What mother, who had sacrificed so much for this child, would scream and run away like that? And what in the world could be wrong with him to cause that reaction other than death? They had already established that the child looked normal. This is very strange. Can anyone explain this??
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I watched this scene on my DVR and rewound it a few times. The scene is shown via shadows on the wall of the baby's room. I did notice what appeared to be hands reaching up from the crib for a few frames, but they seemed way too big for a two year old child's. I'm thinking it was the director's (or some other crew's) hands that were inadvertantly cast on the wall.
I think Sir Wilfred sent Doris the letter that she could see her child finally because he was ill and she just got there too late. He said "it happened this afternoon", IIRC - meaning the child's death.