 The most controversial scene in the entire production was when the  young Philip witnesses his mother having sex in the undergrowth with  a local man. This brought howls of protest from the puritanical  quarters of the British press, partly for the graphic nature of the  scene (Patrick Malahide is seen to be thrusting into Alison  Steadman) and the fact that such a scene was being played out in  front of a child. In reality of course the latter was simply not  true. Child actor Lyndon Davies wasnt involved with the filming of  this scene at all, apart from his own close