Anyone else remember a scene at breakfast where the father and step-mother are gobbling up the nasty mutton broth?
Lizzie has a fantasy that they are poisoned, and they start choking on the soup, but then the fantasy goes away and they are eating normally.
It seems to be cut now, but I remember seeing it.
I remember no such fantasy scene of the Bordens choking at the dining table, and I've seen this film many, many times.(including the night it was first broadcast in 1975)
But they were slurping a lot and generally eating like pigs.
You don't remember the scene because it was later cut. But when Lizzie is later killing her father, and having quick flaskbacks, she has one where her father is at the breakfast table and appears to be choking. It only last a second or two, but it is appearant that this was a scene in the movie which was later cut.
Thanks to the original poster for mentioning this deleted scene. It makes perfect sense to me now, and from Lizzie's flashback, it was obviously a part of the original movie. Thanks for posting!
that might be true.
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Yes, I remember this scene very well. They are relishing their meal but Lizzie refuses to eat because the food is nasty. Another incident that shows what a skinflint Mr. Borden was and how he did not want to waste anything.
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It's sad they deleted that scene because it removes the ambiguity of the ending. The final flashback of Lizzie murdering her parents was meant to be unclear whether it was the truth or another morbid daydream. The film was supposed to have left us with the same uncertain dread that Emma must've felt her entire life. That Lizzie most likely did kill Andrew and Abby, but she would never know for sure.
...When they found her, she was still smiling.
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I don't remember any such scene either. And not only did I watch the original broadcast back in '75 like every teenager across the country who was glued to the TV, but I caught all the subsequent repeats on our local ABC station throughout the 70's until it disappeared from TV altogether by the early 80's. In 1999 it aired repeatedly on Encore's Mystery channel. I recorded it on VHS and there was no such scene either.
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