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of year." She made some changes to the original story, including adding a sheep-shearing party ("I thought, something has to happen", Mortimer commented), and the producers decided that Megan and Frank needed to make love, resulting in Megan having a son. "I don't know what
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soon after giving birth to a son, whom she named "Francis," or Frank. Ashton is taken to see Megan's grave, which is at the spot where they had first met. She had asked to be buried there, to wait for his return. As he motors away with Stella, Ashton passes by a young man who is herding sheep. The man gives a friendly smile to Ashton, and as he leaves, he realizes it is Megan's son Frank.
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had written the film script long before, in the 1960s, when she was working as a screenwriter. "I took the money and ran and totally forgot about it," she said in 1988. "I couldn't remember a thing about it", adding that "the last apple got written out a week before shooting - it was the wrong time
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also gave acclaim to Stubbs, calling her a "magical screen presence", but critiqued the framing device that brings Ashton back to Devon 18 years later, saying, "It sets a mucilaginous tone to what should be a minor-key tragedy; the sharp differences of class and privilege have been sandpapered down
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to cash a cheque at a bank, after promising to return the next morning and take Megan away with him and marry her. On arrival in the town, Ashton finds a branch of his bank, but it will not cash his cheque, insisting on first contacting his branch in London. Ashton agrees to wait in town until the
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and stays there for a few days to recover, while his friend goes on. During his stay, he quickly falls for the village girl who looks after him, Megan David. Joe
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wait at a rendezvous spot they had agreed upon. After hours of waiting for him with no success, she decides to travel to
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