The couple was also memorably spoofed as Mr.and Mrs.Dick and Dora Charleston (cunningly played by David Niven and Maggie Smith) inMurder by Death (1976).Ethan appears o be acting outside the law and may be a fugitive from the law:Ethan: Are you askin' me as a Captain or a preacher, Sam?Clayton: I'm askin' you as a Ranger of the sovereign state of Texas.From the second-story window, Scottie notices that Madeleine Elster's car has also mysteriously disappeared, and later finds it parked back in front of her apartment building, with the flower nosegay on the car's dashboard.The extreme gore of many of the death/murder scenes was drastically cut, to satisfy the MPAA for an R-rating.