Rivals

In her blog, Jeanne Tanzy Williams talked about her nude scene: "In my role as Mary the babysitter I had a topless scene with young Scott Jacoby. It was quite an innocent scene between two young kids discovering the excitement and sexuality of their little bodies. The day of the shoot for that scene I was very scarred. So much so that on the first take when I had to drop my dress and take off my tiny trainers bra, I fainted dead on the floor. It was, of course, a closed set, meaning no one but actively needed crew would be there. But of course the crew that remained, i.e., camera man, boom operator, director, script girl, lighting men, etc., etc. was quite enough to make me feel, well.... strange to say the least! After I came too... the camera man admitted to having no film in the camera for that first take. Guess he instinctively knew it would be a wash. By the end of that days shoot I was pretty relaxed on set even in my nudity and actually traded jokes with the crew."

In the original ending Jamie is crying for his mother, who is dying in a fire on the other side of the door, followed by a scene where Peter waves up to Jamie, looking down from a window. Jamie has apparently been institutionalized. This ending was also in an early VHS version called "Deadly Rivals," but there is a version in circulation, also with the "Deadly Rivals" title, where it cuts from Jamie crying by the door to a shot of a fireplace with superimposed film credits.

Referenced in Teaser (1974)