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christoph404

I have seen both endings screened on TV on different occasions. I think the original ending was the shell hitting the building they are in and the film ends with an explosion. That was deemed to bleak so their is a version where they simply walk outside the derelict building and the film ends there. I haven't seen the DVD, whats on there J.J.?

davidb

wasnt really happy with the ending to this is england ,preferred some of the alternative endings on the dvd ,

J. J.

I believe this is the most recent DVD version.
I don't recall a commentary or any significant DVD special features apart from the alternate ending.

In the released-version ending, a bomb lands on and destroys the building sheltering the two characters; this immediately follows an argument in which both have, sadly, reverted to their original misunderstanding and antagonism.
The alternate ending shows them, after their argument, unhappily and angrily packing up their gear, reassuming their former identities as enemies and separately walking out of the building.

(I think it's a good film and I wish it were more widely known.)
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CaptainWaggett

If we're doing alternative endings, the scene tacked on to the US version of Kind Hearts and Coronets, while it doesn't actually ruin the film, does show a certain lack of subtlety.

batman

I prefer to think that Suspicion ended with CG carrying the luminous milk up the stairs.

Daddy .... the frisbee has gone in the water .... what a finger puppet drama queen I am!

CaptainWaggett

The Strange Affar of Uncle Harry has a cringe-making ending, though, as with The Mousetrap, the audience is sworn to secrecy about what it is so you'll have to see the film to find it out.

trelawnee

..I was sort of hoping that this time Sean Bury would escape his pursuers and get back to Anicee Alvina.

john audley

I always consider that the Flight of the Phoenix (original film) had a poor ending. A brilliant film throughout but ends in a whimper rather than a heroes welcome with the plane and the designer really made something of by the oil base crew perhaps with the media covering big-time. One should see the plane actually landing.

The League of Gentleman (original film) received a bad press on release I think because of the Military ending rather than just the characters being arrested by the Police.

High Noon was slated throughout by John Wayne who hated the film. He said so on Parkinson. No American community would behave like that - he said. Behaving like cowards - as he put it. From a cinema art point of view a great film of cause but Wayne said it was due to the 'socialistic' tendencies of Hollywood that had to be rooted out.

'You should be kind to us normals, there are not many of us left you know'!

Marky B

Probably jealous he wasn't in it. One of the finest westerns ever made.
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Marky B

I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas - how he got in my pyjamas,I'll never know

batman

Wayne could be a very jealous man. He turned down the opportunity to do 7 Men From Now but his company produced it. It was a huge hit and revitalised Randolph Scott's career. Wayne slated it and Scott really badly, even though his own company produced it.

Daddy .... the frisbee has gone in the water .... what a finger puppet drama queen I am!

Marky B

He was at a crossroad,and maybe it reflected he was at a crossroads in life. Enjoyable film though. In fact,I like most of Tom Hanks films.
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Marky B

I once shot an elephant in my pyjamas - how he got in my pyjamas,I'll never know

Azanti

I'm sorry but nothing could ever top the ending to Kevin Kostners, 'The Postman' already a dire film beyond belief (Not the concept itself, just various things in it)
The unveiling of the statue followed by the poetic words of drivel from the man looking on, seeing the portrayal of the child eagerly awaiting the postman to take the letter from his hands, remarks at the statue 'That was me...' with a tear in his eye.

Good God. What a load of utter tripe.

shaun brown

THE ITALIAN JOB.

Truly wonderful film except the ending! Everything else wonderful...but that finish!

Oh...

penfold

L'Enfant Du Carnival....a silent, remade in sound later, filmed around Nice in the South of France by White russian emigres, starring Ivan Mozzhukhin....it's a comedy, basically Three Men and a Baby....but with the famous Russian-taste miserable ending.....
Discovered to have imbezzled his firm, a clerk runs off to sea leaving wife and new baby behind to face the music. The ship the husband sails on is sunk with all hands. In penury, the mother chooses to abandon the baby on the steps of a mansion belonging to a bachelor aristocrat playboy(Mozzhukhin) attended by his faithful elderly bachelor butler. The aristo and butler, left holding the baby, decide to give it a go at bringing the baby up themselves....much comedy business entails. In a rare moment of lucidity, they advertise for a nanny, which the mother applies for and gets. Months, years pass...there is a mutual but unspoken attraction between the aristo and the mother/nanny...and then the baby falls ill. During the crisis the truth comes out, both of the baby's parentage and their love....the crisis passes, the couple decide to regularise the arrangement and marry.....the end, you would think....
....but this is Russian comedy; the couple return from the church, to find the original husband has turned up, having survived the sinking after all, and mother and child go off with him!!!! Bastards!!!!

Bit of a Bay Window, what??