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As you know, that's exactly what happened with The Shining and to a larger extent The Exorcist II. With The Shining, they simply excised the final scene in the hospital and that resulted in a nasty splice in those initial prints - and a nice audio bump into the photo at the end. For The Heretic...

I wonder why Grubert wanted me to read that article? There's not a single thing in it that contradicts a single thing I said, which wasn't about content but was about dates. The only thing he's wrong about is playing the bottom half of double bills, at least in its July (the 23rd in LA, not...

I was lucky enough to see Oh Dad on stage here in LA with Hermione Gingold and Sam Waterston, directed by Jerome Robbins - hilarious, weird, and a great production. The movie, if you love the play, is a travesty - all the Jonathan Winters stuff was added after a disastrous sneak preview. I...

I lived on E. 29th St. right near the Newkirk subway stop. We were neighbors! 356 E. 29th. :) I was probably there when you saw Once Upon a Time in the West. A few months prior, they played the horrible Can Heironymous Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness, the Anthony Newley...

This thread is giving me a headache. Let's get some things straight here. Apparently, I'm the only one who actually saw this movie in 1969. I not only saw it, I saw it every day and night for over two weeks. So, the film did NOT open in July, it opened on May 28 in two NY theaters. It went wide...

There was NEVER EVER a 178-minute version in the United States. Ever. Paramount owns what they own, which is the US theatrical cut.

No, the colors, while a bit TOO blue, are mostly accurate to the IB Tech print they used for timing. You are very wrong about this. I interviewed the fellows who did that transfer for the DGA magazine, and for what they had to work with at the time, it was a great job and it's the only version...

Just to say that I've seen several films at the Aero and they do not have great projection there.

Ah, I didn't realize it was a new account with its first post. I'll go look and see what's what.

There is a disturbing post in the other Searchers thread saying this is yellow as can be. I'm hoping it's not, but that's sure what it sounds like from the post. If the bricks in the main titles are yellow we're in deep doo doo and it means they used the last transfer as a color reference...

This is not good to hear. If the bricks are yellow during the titles, then they have screwed this up again. I'll wait to see it with my own eyeballs, but I'm not thrilled hearing this.

It is missing a total of twelve frames from the US theatrical version that was cut and restored with twelve frames from the VHS and Italian DVD, then transferred to Beta from the 8mm original home video version. These all occur during the film.

I'm sure Hunt wouldn't have said that if he hadn't checked. VERY good news.