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What if Sylvester Had Brought Along Barrie Chase?


So now she's in the car as he is running down Russell and Hawthorne, or better yet, she's driving so Sylvester can attack them in their car, jumping across to them or something.

In essence, by the time the cars wrecked and the tow truck arrived, she would just be redundant alongside Emaline.

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There's a cut scene where Barrie Chase is screaming at Sylvester because the car he's taking off in belongs to her husband.

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I read somewhere her character had a name: Mrs. Halliburton.

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I think that's a GREAT idea. It would have added even more tension to the end scene - plus, some sexual tension, as well. Barrie and Ethel Merman would have had some GREAT scenes together!

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Maybe he told her to stay at home and dance or wait for him. It might've been interesting to see her there too, but that wasn't how they wrote it.

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When I was little, I speculated about essentially the groups going in different directions; something like Pike, Bell and Benjamin heading one way and Market, Crump and Finch all going the other.

Made for a weird mishmash with Phil Silvers having to carry everyone in or something like that. Totally messed up.

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Yeah I still do that lol. Think up various new plots to this. Maybe there should have been a game or simulation about this movie (or maybe there was).

I often think that if Meyer (the Silvers character) had just been nicer to Pike and taken him at the start, they would have been there first. And they could dig up the money and THEN Meyer would double-cross Pike and take the briefcase.

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Seems like I toyed with that too. Or just pondered if Winters had not been knocked out by Ray and Irwin and forced Meyer to take him, then no one would have been around to pick everyone else up.

OR if Pike had taken Meyer's car and left him, would Meyer then have crossed up somehow with Mrs. Market and Ameline?

Oh, I would have loved thinking out things like this when I was little.

I got the movie on dvd and it aired sometime last year and I had no reason to sit and watch it, could have watched it anytime on disk.

I sat and WATCHED the entire movie! I recorded it on audio casettes and used to listen to it SO much, I can recite the dialogue along with it.

It was like a sickness. LOL!

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The blank expression on her face always tickles the Hell out of me! 



Annoying the world since 1960!

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I used to record various movies on cassette tapes too, and memorize them!. Also, It's Marcus, not Market. Cheers!



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