Mr. Potter's comeuppance

I once read where a scene showing Mr. Potter from It’s a Wonderful Life getting what he’s had coming all of his life was shot, but never survived the edit process and was lost forever. What a pity.

I’ll personally speculate that it showed the bank examiners finding an undocumented $7k during an audit, and he goes to prison after losing everything. Predictable and boring.

What are the kickers you’d LIKE to see? I have a few…

  • Potter is outed as being a proto Jerry Sandusky.

  • Potter dies of syphilitic dementia after catching a dose from Violet Bick.

  • Potter gets his own big reveal, and dies of a heart attack after he sees how miserable people are because he was alive.

Any other ideas?

It wasn’t lost at all! Here you go:

It’s a Wonderful Life – the Lost Ending

Final shot - shooting up from the river’s perspective.

The angel throws Potter off the bridge and flies away.