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Deep In My Heart is an American wide-screen movie adapted for television. In order to fit the movie on television screens without distorting the screen, the editing process involved focusing on sections of the screen and following the action, often resulting in voice-overs over the wrong sections of screen. According to the credits, the movie was from the studio that created "Midnight Cowboy," "The Dirty Dozen," "War And Peace," "The Glass Bottom Boat," "Thunder Ball." "Sleeping Beauty," "Mutiny on the Bounty," "Leave Her To Heaven" and "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers." The cast included James Stewart, Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar and Maurice Chevalier.
In the film, a young man (Benny Hill) drives out in to the desert to show his girlfriend (Dilys Watling) the property he owns. He claims he is going to build a resort on the property, but when they stop to have a picnic, the real owner (Jackie Wright, voice dubbed by Henry McGee) shows up with his dog and beats up the young man. His girlfriend has to rescue him and apologize. After a tough confession from him, the girl forgives him as the camera pans out from their reconciliation, revealing a stagehand (Henry McGee) wandering into the fake backdrop.
Trivia[]
- The opening and closing marks the first use in the series of "Theme" by Paul Lewis from the Josef Weinberger (JW Themes) library. It was previously used by "Monty Python's Flying Circus" for the opening of the "Veronica Smalls' Party Hints" sketch of Episode #31, "The All-England Summarize Proust Competition."
- This was the second sketch (after Who's Afraid of Virgin Wool) to serve as Benny's critique of the way CinemaScope and other wide-screen films were shown on television up to this point, which had also been criticized by such noted American film critics as Leonard Maltin and Siskel & Ebert, and by film director Martin Scorsese.
