I was 16 when I learnd that the movie I see in a theater isn't always the only version to be seen. there was quite a bit of publicity abt a small film calld "Cry Tough." Linda Cristal has a love scene with John Saxon. in the movie I saw she was wearing a black slip. but there was a version with her topless which was releasd in Europe.
now we're used to seeing director's cuts & alternate endings & all manner of "extras." James Robert Parish informs me abt a website which tracks these various versions of films. here is an example.
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something else for me to worry about
well it does complicate the study of film.
it also complicates the memories of movies. drive-in flix, because of their sometimes lurid ad campaigns and content, were often subject to the projectionist's scissors. so one version of the film at this drive-in could be different in part at that other drive-in. when many of these movies were being released to dvd for the first time and remastered it was sometimes, as i read, hell trying to find enough pieces of the film from different elements to cobble together a hopefully uncut finished film.
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