My VHS copy is a full screen version and I can barely make out his outstretched arm just after she starts tumbling down. It seems like too much of a coincidence that she could have done this unassisted, as it were, but she was very happy/hyper at the prospect of the impending elopement and could have stumbled on her own.
shareI think she was protected by all those petticoats girls wore in those days.
shareHer reaction is weird, too. She tumbles about 15 feet and doesn't even say "Ow".
shareThere's a big surge in the music just as she begins to fall, suggesting that Bud shoved her, but if he did she didn't feel it or she would certainly have said so after she got up.
shareshe's tough.
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LOL...I know, right? How do you roll and tumble that far down and then just get up and dust yourself off and not say a word?
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It's difficult to tell. I had to go back and check out that scene. It appears that he went to place his arm around her but then she took a tumble off of the bleachers.
shareI think she fell accidentally, and that gave Bud the idea to murder her.
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