Alternative ending


This film wasn't available for many years. In 1979 when I really wanted to see it couldn't I did find a copy of the novelazation. That book had a different ending, when Kitty came back home to find her husband was already there. Like in the movie she saw her letter wasn't read yet and was happy. But in the book after she left the room we find out that her husband did in fact read the letter, and then he calls the woman he was having an affair with the break it off, the woman turned out to be Larry (Bob Hope's charater)'s wife.

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"Like in the movie she saw her letter wasn't read yet and was happy. But in the book after she left the room we find out that her husband did in fact read the letter,"
I just watched the film. The husband HAD read the letter, he simply told Kitty that he hadn't yet. Then he burned it but it had been opened. So it sounds like the book (which I didn't read myself) had ended like the movie after all.

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I just watched the film. The husband HAD read the letter, he simply told Kitty that he hadn't yet. Then he burned it but it had been opened. So it sounds like the book (which I didn't read myself) had ended like the movie after all.


... except that the book gives a little more information about the husband's situation -- information which I guess was part of the whole story, but that the movie only implied. I'm glad I read this thread though, because I was about to start one of my own talking about how touching the ending was -- how it showed the husband's true care that he was willing to stay with a woman who he knew had betrayed him, even for a moment. The way they were able to resume their lives in good faith was just beautiful in my opinion.

But now that I read with the novelization had included, I realized that Larry's wife as well as Kitty's husband was probably having a mutual affair. Although, thinking about that that surprises me the most that out of all the characters in the movie, where his wife seemed to most levelheaded and least likely to cheat. So, all evidence aside, just focusing on the individual herself, Larry's wife really doesn't seem like the type who would do that sort of thing.

"Moment by Moment" (1978), may be the most underrated movie ever! May be my fav! <3

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MyMovieRomance says > But now that I read with the novelization had included, I realized that Larry's wife as well as Kitty's husband was probably having a mutual affair.
There's no inkling of this secondary affair between their spouses in the movie. Even if it was written that way in the book, I'm glad they didn't go that route in the movie. This movie was made in the early 1960s so one affair was probably a big deal in itself. Had the movie been made a few years later they might have made it more like the book. In the end, they would have probably decided to swap partners every now and then. Later still, they might have swapped spouses; meaning on a more permanent basis.

One of the many things I really liked about the movie is how their 'affair' played out. They started out not even liking each other and couldn't imagine spending time together then they realize they have a lot in common and become friends. Next, they enjoy each other's company and very close feelings develop. They exchange a few kisses and naughty thoughts but nothing more ever happens.

Later when they do decide they want it to go further, they're back in their real day-to-day lives and find it logistically very difficult to carry on a clandestine affair. This is what happens with a lot of married couples. They lose their spark because daily life and responsibility come between them. In the end of the movie, we see they've learned their lesson. They could just as easily 'fall' for their respective spouses if they take time to get away alone together leaving the rigors of daily life behind them.


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