Doomed for today's audience (possible spoiler)
I first saw the original on TV about 40 years ago (I'm very old!) and was wowed by the twist. It was on TV again recently and I got my wife to watch it and she guessed it easily. The problem is, at the time, a twist ending was the exception rather than the rule. I think audiences were more inclined to take a film at face value and so were able to be truly surprised. Nowadays there isn't much that hasn't been tried, and twist endings have become very ho-hum: it takes a lot to surprise a savvy 21st century audience who either know ahead of time there is a twist, or will watch a film such as this expecting there to be one. Therefore I can't see this being anything but disappointing, but I will give it a try.
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