 The meeting of Eugenia's and Mrs. Acton, an isolated incident in the book, is at the center of the ball scene.Also Ivory liked to have a big party in his films at which Eugena begins to recognize that she has no place there, neither with the demure old women who sit in a room off to the side nor with the young couple at the dance floor, Jahabala also provided a new ending in which as Eugenia prepares to leave in a carriage that Acton puts at her disposal; Mr brand and Charlotte joyfully speak lines from a book of sermon

"The Europeans" was shot between October and November 1978 on locations using interiors of the period in Barrett House, and Bullard-Barr House both in New Ipswich, New Hampshire; Gardner-Pingree House and Salem Maritime National Historic Site both located in Salem, Massachusetts; Lyman Estate in Waltham and in Concord, Massachusetts.The film is notable for its look of New England countryside in Autumn with its striking reds and oranges, capturing Henry James's sense of ambivalent wonder at the New World in New England.