| re: The Apartment vs Promises, Promises (longish). |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 03:03 am EST 12/27/22 |
| In reply to: re: The Apartment vs Promises, Promises (longish). - Delvino 08:25 pm EST 12/26/22 |
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I'm not sure that there were licensed versions of classic films shown on TV before cable arrived. I can remember seeing different cut versions of classic films on different networks. A film like the 1935 Captain Blood might be cut to 75 minutes on WGN-TV but then shown on WBBM-TV at 99 minutes. I can also recall seeing two or three distinctly different length versions of the 1937 Lost Horizon, depending on which network was showing it.
When VHS tapes arrived, it was often the cut version of classic films like the 1939 Gunga Din that was released initially. Beginning in around 1980 or so when Cinemax debuted, we finally were able to see the uncut 117-minute version of Gunga Din, the 119-minute version of Captain Blood, the 124-minute version of the 1932 Sign of the Cross, and countless others.
When I first saw Hitchcock's 1948 The Paradine Case on TV (probably WGN-TV), there were scenes with Charles Coburn and other scenes with Gregory Peck and Ethel Barrymore that are not in the standard 116-minute version shown on TCM and available on DVD and Blu-Ray. The recent Kino Lorber Blu-Ray release advertises itself as the 125-minute version, but in reality it's the same truncated 116-minute print that apparently is the only one in distribution today. |
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