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Just right for relaxed after INCLUDES URGENTJUKE BOX HERONIGHT LIFE WAITING FOR A GIRL LIKE YOU noon dining on the water's edge. ComDlete dinner Includes soup, salad, vegetables, rice, green tea, dessert. Early Savers i By Aljean Harmetz Ntw York Tlm HOLLYWOOD Walt Disney's The Watcher in the Woods opened in New York on April 17, 1980, and was clubbed to death by the critics. "I challenge even the most indulgent fan to give a coherent translation of what passes for an explanation at the end," Vincent Canby, The New York Times critic, wrote of the ghost story-science fiction hybrid, which starred Bette Davis, Carroll Baker and Lynn-Holly Johnson. It seemed that Disney's desperate attempt to attract a new and older audience had ended in still another failure.

Eighteen months and $1 million worth of revisions later, The Watcher in the Woods opened in 240 theaters -on Oct. 8. "A rattlingly good suspense yarn," wrote The Hollywood Reporter, an industry trade paper. "The ending is seamless, satisfying, resolving the mystery. The film is genuinely and scary," said The Richmond Times-Dispatch.

Equally satisfying to Disney, the movie earned a respectable $1.2 million during its first week. Why did Disney take the unprecedented gamble of withdrawing The I Watcher in the Woods to invent and shoot a new ending? Films that have already opened in theaters have occasionally been shortened. After 2001: A Space Odyssey had gotten hostile reviews, Stanley Kubrick flew from London to cut nearly 20 minutes from it. When reviewers complained about the length of Dr. Zhivago, David Lean flew from London to cut 10 to, 15 minutes.

Isadora was shortened by more than an hour. So was Heaven's Gate. But no one can remember a movie that was withdrawn to go back into production. "Why did we do it? We felt we had seven-eighths of a good picture," said Tom Leetch, the movie's co-producer. "But the ending confused people." "They had tried to blend science fiction with a ghost story, and it didn't work," said Harrison Ellenshaw, who designed the shape and look of the new ending.

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