Like a lot of you, I just saw this one presumably unedited on TCM, but one thing bothers me. I could swear that the first scene with the landlady (played by Florence Stanley) was longer, and showed her reciting even more rules (a set of them amounting to a whole page), while the three of them seem to be wilting from the heat while standing there. But this is the second time I've seen it on premium cable without that. Was part of the scene taken out along the way?
shareI just saw an old VHS copy of it tonight. That scene shows Jack Nicholson and Stockard Channing nearly keeling over in the heat -- eyes fluttering and both of them swaying. I thought the rules would never end.
shareThank you! I didn't think I'd made it up. I just wonder why it got deleted later on.
shareWell, I hadn't seen the movie since it was new in the theater. Those days, I was avidly watching any and all Jack Nicholson movies. After seeing "The Fortune" I began to follow Stockard Channing's career.
Another thing missing from the taped version I saw a couple nights ago: the reference to her being the "mouse bed" heiress. I think Jack has a whole routine in the movie discovering just what exactly her mother's fortune came from and why he called them mouse beds. Either that scene was eliminated or it was reduced to 10 seconds and I totally missed it.
Again, I didn't think I'd made it up. I always remember that tortured look on their faces, and Florence Stanley had just the right kind of voice for a joke like that.
shareThe scene where Jack's character explains why he calls sanitary pads mouse beds is early in the movie, about 10 minutes in, talking on the train to Beatty's character. The scene where we learn that Channing's character is heir to a sanitary pads fortune is later, about 40 minutes in, where Jack's character brings out a box of sanitary pads with the Channing character's mother pictured on it, and says "She's the mouse-bed heiress".
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