- Messages
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- Reaction score
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- Trophy Points
- 53
The final (unless I can figure out how to fix Stage Fright) in my series of Hitchcock mini-edits, "Marnie: The Evan Hunter Cut" is an attempt to showcase the 1964 Sean Connery/Tippi Hedren thriller without the sexual assault scene between the two married lead characters that appeared in the source material, to which original screenwriter Evan Hunter (aka crime novelist Ed McBain) objected.
Hitchcock insisted upon the scene, saying "Evan, when he sticks it in her, I want that camera right on her face."
Hunter pleaded with Hitchcock not to use that scene, which lead to Hunter's dismissal from continued work on the film.
Although Hunter is no longer credited as the screenwriter on the finished film, I was nevertheless curious to see how this still-controversial and divisive Hitchcock classic played without that particular scene.
If anyone from the FE academy is interested in reviewing this for submission to the IFDB, please PM me. Thanks!