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What's Up With the Ending?

What's Up With the Ending?

Famously, NXNW ends with a scene of married (thanks to the Hays Code) bliss and also an embarrassingly obvious phallic symbol (thanks to Hitchcock).

On the one hand, this is a sweet moment, since it shows the fulfillment of Thornhill's promise, what Eve calls his "proposition": "If we ever get out of this alive, let's go back to New York on the train together, alright?" But even though Hitch agreed to adding the "Mrs. Thornhill" line to the dialogue, he added a naughty twist.

We're surprised that this one got past the censors.