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* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: The second adaption still isn't completely true to the play, and lacks the "power" driven plot of said play, but is still the closest to it.
* [[All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game"]]: The movie is most well-known for the ending.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Mary's lie is exposed, but Martha is dead, the school is closed and Karen and Joe break up.}}
* [[Blackmail]]: Mary uses this to turn fellow student Rosalie into her collaborator.
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* [[Gayngst]]: {{spoiler|Martha}} has her fair share, near the end.
{{quote| ''' {{spoiler|Martha:}}''' Don't you see? I can't stand to have you touch me! I can't stand to have you look at me! Oh, it's all my fault. I have ruined your life and I have ruined my own. I swear I didn't know it! I didn't mean it! Oh, I feel so damn sick and dirty I can't stand it anymore! }}
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* [[Inspired By]]: The play was inspired by an actual Scottish court case.
* [[Malicious Slander]]
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* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: {{spoiler|Mrs. Tilford, once she realizes her granddaughter's scheming. Karen, however, tells her she's too late to apologize.}}
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* [[Pull the Thread]]: Mary's scheme is only uncovered when {{spoiler|Rosalie's mother finds a cache of stolen items in Mary's possession.}}
* [[Remake Cameo]]: Miriam Hopkins played Lily Mortar in the 1961 film, after having played her niece Martha in the 1936 version.
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