I think you have a few of the details mixed up, Rosemary was drinking coffee while still in bed. The woman who is watching her comes in takes her breast milk, but rosemary stops her to put her dirty dishes on the tray. As Rosemay does this she sticks the spoon she used for the coffee in the breast milk and the woman freaks, and that is where she finds out the baby is still alive. Now I think I’m confusng things, But i’m sure she never drugged the woman.
Well, I’ve seen it in a theater and I only remember David Dardanelli’s description… That’s assuming the reel would be of the original version.
I always thought she was storing the pills just to avoid taking them.
Well I distinctily remember seeing her put the crushed pills in the womans coffee and that scene comes after the breastmilk scene. I have also upon further investigation found forums stating that the actual devil baby can be seen at the end of the film. I have never seen that but I wish there was a way to get the story straight on what scenes in the film are cut if any.
At any rate the scene is in the book which polanski follows to a T and the scene I refer to was on a VHS not on TV or DVD.
When I saw the movie in its first release in 1968, there were no crushed pills and no shot of the devil baby.
I don’t think there was ever a shot of her putting them in Pasy Kelly’s coffee, that was never a motive. The close-up of the pills stashed there is one of the best shots in the moive.
I used to watch it on VHS and now on DVD. I agree with most everyone—she hides the pills so she herself isn’t drugged. Since she’s so out of it, it isn’t like there’s a close vigilance, etc.
Well I rewatched the film on DVD last night. I have to say although I swear I saw that scene in the film the first time I saw it, without it it doesent effect the pacing or overall feel to the picture. And since the general opinion lean towards the scene not being there in the first place I must be mistaking the scene in the book for the scene in the film.
I thought the missing scene in question was the one where Guy and Roman are enjoying a private moment and Roman begins to set Guy up for the Big Betrayal of Rosemary. [Joking]
For the record, I really love this movie, too, Jonuk!
Jonuk Who
I love Rosemary’s Baby. I read the book and saw the film on VHS years ago. It is a perfect adaptation. It would be one of my favorite films, but, I think I may be crazy, but I think a scene is cut from the film on DVD. It is the scene towards the end after she has the baby, and the satanists are trying to drug her and keep her bed ridden, but she keeps the pills on the bedframe, until she has enough to put it in the coffee of the woman who is watching her, so she can get out of bed and find the baby in the neighbors apartment in the haunting final scene. On DVD, the scene opens with that woman coming in to watch Rosemary, but ends before she can put the pills in her coffee. It then cuts to her, quite inexplicably walking in a hallway in the next scene without the explanation of how she was able to get past the watchful eye of her captors. It has been bugging me for years and no one I know remembers this scene but I swear I saw it on the VHS tape I rented years ago. Does anyone else remember this scene or share my fustration on scenes cut from films yet to be restored onto DVD?