Director of photography Jack Cardiff came up with the idea of starting the rainfall end-scene by first having a few drops hit the rhubarb leaves before cueing a full-force rainstorm. He personally created the first drops with water from a cup when the scene was shot. Writer, producer and director Michael Powell was so pleased with the effect that he decided to make the scene, originally the penultimate one, the closing shot. Cardiff, however, was a great fan of the original scene (which had already been shot) that was supposed to follow this one and close the movie. To his dying day, Cardiff amusingly called the opening drops of the rainfall "the worst idea I ever had".

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