The final scene in the movie Restless Natives begins with Ronnie asking Will and Margot, "Do you believe in ghosts?" before cutting to scenery as the credits start.
The producers had paired this sequence to Come Back To Me in the early versions of the film cut with Big Country songs in sections to show what it was they were after, so Stuart penned 'Home Came the Angels' which, even by his admission, was a basic re-write of CBTM, to meet them halfway. Original material for the film but closely matching what the producers were after.
In the end, the producers opted to keep Come Back To Me for the final scene so Home Came the Angels was never used in the film.
In some interviews around the time of the film's release and in the years after, Stuart did express his some dismay in having written original material that wasn't used in the movie, and although he never explicitly singled out Home Came the Angels, one only had to join the dots to realise this would have been a part of his disappointment.
Here then, is what I would call "Stuart's preferred cut” - Using HCTA instead of CBTM - and it is edited in here in stereo, as well as the final number Restless Natives as the credits continue.
Does this right an injustice? That is up to you but it is not the intention of this clip - the film will never be altered now to include Home Came the Angels, this is just a little edit so we can see how it may have fitted the way Stuart and the band might have preferred. I think it fits very well.
The film is out, newly restored, on Blu ray, DVD and digital as of March 1, 2021.
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