About halfway through the movie, Barbara Stanwyck's character tore or broke the shoulder strap on her handbag as she is leaving 60 Washington Square, and this is filmed as if it's a big significant deal: Stanwyck does a big reaction and everything. This looked like it would be connected in some way to the murder of Ava Gardner's character, but it's never mentioned again.
sharegood point. It puzzles me too.
sharejust to make it so that Mark would suspect her. remember he noticed it at Stanwyk's apartment.
Swing away, Merrill....Merrill, swing away...share
a (follow up) scene could have been cut. ***** SPOILERS BELOW *****
when they find the broken nail on the floor, i wondered if they were also going to find a piece of Jessie's broken purse strap, evidence that SHE had been at the scene of a crime. that scene could have been cut when someone else was made the fall gal.
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The strap is simply "symbolic" of how Stanwyck's life has come apart and that she has no control over it. When she notices it again, it's the second nail on the proverbial coffin...it's another sign that her "perfect" life is about to be over.
That's how I see it.
Enrique Sanchez
Right.
It goes back to Stanwyck's scene with Davis where they discuss the safety pin in the slip. Stanwyck says oh well it's mended now. The idea is she keeps having to mend her marriage held together (embarrassingly) with safety pins. Now the purse strap is broken; does she mend it with a safety pin, or throw it away for a new one?