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Missing Scene ???

posted 17 years ago by sugar92
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I just saw the DVD again for the first time in many years, and was wondering if there had been a cut to the original airing of this film.

for some reason I thought there was a scene where Marguerite flees Percy after a hurtful confrontation, and runs up the stairs. After she is gone, he shows his love privately, by kissing the path up the stairs that she took!

I don't know if it was in the original book, and that's what I am thinking of or if this is all something I made up, but if anyone else remembers or knows what I am talking about, would be great to get a confirmation!

[–] Flippitygibbit 17 years ago

The stair-kissing is from the book, in the chapter 'Richmond'; I had thought it a rather Victorian, melodramatic demonstration of love, but then I recently read a book set in 1930s New York where a man does the same thing for the girl he idolises!

Marguerite does flee from Percy in the film, after he refuses to defend her against the Comtesse's accusations and then basically confesses that he believes the same, but she runs off into the woods to talk with Suzanne, and he does not kiss the ground she walks on as they are in public!

Sarah

"Tony, if you talk that rubbish, I shall be forced to punch your head" - Lord Tony's Wife, Orczy

[–] tc1803 12 years ago

I don't remember a scene about kissing stairs, but I keep thinking that there was a scene with Sir Percy and Chauvelin in a room and Percy is trying to leave but can't quite escape. While Chauvelin isn't looking, Percy substitutes black pepper for snuff and gets Chauvelin to take a strong draw, escaping while Chauvelin has a sneezing fit.
Am I delusional or was there really such a scene???

[–] green_Swedish_car 12 years ago

I had to look that up, because I knew for a fact the pepper scene is not in the 1982 film, but it sounded so familiar I knew I'd either seen it in another film version or read it in the novel. And it is in the book!

"He took a pinch of snuff.

Only he, who has ever by accident sniffed vigorously a dose of pepper, can have the faintest conception of the hopeless condition in which such a sniff would reduce any human being.

Chauvelin felt as if his head would burst--sneeze after sneeze seemed nearly to choke him; he was blind, deaf, and dumb for the moment, and during that moment Blakeney quietly, without the slightest haste, took up his hat, took some money out of his pocket, which he left on the table, then calmly stalked out of the room!"