Marry Your Rapist

"If not for being interrupted he would have raped her."
And you know that for a fact?

This scene is comparable to the Gone With the Wind scene. You better don't read that either. Or The Fountainhead. Or 50 Shades...
There is quite an obvious sexual magnetism between Mitchum and Monroe.

If you'd like to be outraged, that's fine with me. I'm not.

Peace Out.

Jessica Rabbit
"I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way."

i totally agree...

these scene was horrible for todays thinking and behaviour.

a film has to be timeless if it wants to be really good.
this scene destroyed the whole movie,
which was even without this scene quite below mediocre.
(though i like preminger, monroe and mitchell)

She's not playing hard to get, she's playing "How do I save my rotten boyfriend's life?" Answer--agreeing that she'd be willing to "be friends" with Mitchum.

The problem with the scene is that she's totally flirting with him, he responds and then she freaks out. It would have made more sense, in the confines of the plot and that scene, to have allowed him the kiss--or more--to insure his interest and sympathy. It's a conventional moment in many films of that time--trying to get some sexual tension out of a situation.

He does not rape her. And this is not real life. It's a silly movie and that is a silly scene. (a convenient mountain lion appears to make sure nothing goes too far in this 1954 movie!)

Real rape in real life is something to be angry over. And I will assume you address yourself to those real-life victims and situations as vigorously as you object to a scene in a movie. And that can only be a good thing.