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Post by Shep on Jan 6, 2007 18:40:46 GMT -5
What missing or cut film footage would you most like to see? A few of my own: "The Magnificent Ambersons." Orson Welles' original cut with the downbeat ending. Presumably lost forever (?). "Martin." Romero's initial cut ran something like 2 and a half hours. The current film is about an hour and a half. "The Shining." The ending scene where Barry Nelson visits Shelly Duvall in the hospital. "Eyes Wide Shut." I'd love to see the unused Harvey Keitel and Jennifer Jason Leigh footage. "Husbands." According to director Don Siegal, the best cut of John Cassavetes' film ran well over 3 hours. "The Thin Red Line." Loads of excised footage, including scenes with Martin Sheen and Mickey Rourke (who never made it into the final film at all). "The New World." The longer initial version people in LA and NY got to see. This was supposed to be released on DVD, but never was.  "One Eyed Jacks." Brando's original cut with the downbeat ending. "Burn!" The longer director's cut. This actually has made the rounds in various film fests, but no DVD release yet.  |
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Post by Shep on Jan 6, 2007 18:46:17 GMT -5
I also forgot the lost "Wicker Man" footage with Christopher Lee's speech about apples.
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Post by mightyjack on Jan 6, 2007 18:50:42 GMT -5
Great thread, I'll have to think about this one though. I know there are more than a few. But they seem to keep restoring the ones I've always wanted (Like the Brando footage in Superman II)
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Post by Broadsword on Jan 6, 2007 19:03:45 GMT -5
Great thread.
I'd like to see the uncut 1924 Greed, I've seen the still photo version of the lost footage that TCM had about 5 years and was brilliant.
The lost film London After Midnight a Lon Chaney vampire film.
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Post by Chuck on Jan 6, 2007 19:16:18 GMT -5
I also forgot the lost "Wicker Man" footage with Christopher Lee's speech about apples. I seem to remember that speech. I've got the deluxe dvd edition, with the american and european versions. I agee 100% with The Magnificent Ambersons. I'd kill to see the original cut. The original cut of Night of Dark Shadows (or is it House of Dark Shadows) reportedly has been found and is being restored. They just found more footage (and hence released another Criterion edition) of Fritz Lang's M. And I'd love to see the Joan Crawford/Agnes Moorehead scenes that were filmed for Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte before Crawford dropped out. Moorehead said in interviews it was the best work Crawford ever did. |
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Post by Shep on Jan 7, 2007 11:18:58 GMT -5
I also forgot the lost "Wicker Man" footage with Christopher Lee's speech about apples. I seem to remember that speech. I've got the deluxe dvd edition, with the american and european versions. I agee 100% with The Magnificent Ambersons. I'd kill to see the original cut. The original cut of Night of Dark Shadows (or is it House of Dark Shadows) reportedly has been found and is being restored. They just found more footage (and hence released another Criterion edition) of Fritz Lang's M. And I'd love to see the Joan Crawford/Agnes Moorehead scenes that were filmed for Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte before Crawford dropped out. Moorehead said in interviews it was the best work Crawford ever did. Wow! I had no idea Crawford was going to be in "Hush, Hush." I love that film! Interesting trivia I found on imdb: When the taxi pulls up with cousin Miriam inside and stops at the foot of the steps, if you look closely before Miriam gets out you can just for a split moment see it is fact Joan Crawford in the back and not Olivia de Havilland. You can't see Crawford's face but you can tell it's her by the black dress and dark sunglasses that she is wearing. When de Haviland as Miriam is seen in the taxi before she arrives she is wearing a white hat and her clothing is light colored.Yes, I'm excited about "Night" being restored, too. I was kinda hoping it would be ready for last Halloween. Not sure about "Wicker Man." I think Christopher Lee said something in the documentary about a missing deleted scene with a longer speech about apples and mythology, etc. (?). Also, while not technically films, there's loads of old missing Doctor Who eps from the 60s I'd love to see, especially "The Dalek Masterplan" (though they found another ep of it a year or two ago). |
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Post by Wild Rebel on Jan 7, 2007 16:00:28 GMT -5
The lost film London After Midnight a Lon Chaney vampire film. That's a good one. However if you ever get a chance to watch the "restoration" that was made from the script and photographs in the AMC Lon Chaney DVD set, you might start to believe that Chaney's makeup was the best part of that film. I'd like to see the original edit of Fritz Lang's Metropolis - even the Kino DVD isn't anywhere close to complete. I'd also love to see the original endings of Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein. Also the bit with Billy Barty dressed up as a baby monster in a high chair in the miniature bottles in Bride.... And the original endings of Pretty in Pink and Little Shop of Horrors (the musical version) - even though they aren't "lost" just under lock and key. |
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Post by Chuck on Jan 7, 2007 17:19:43 GMT -5
The lost film London After Midnight a Lon Chaney vampire film. That's a good one. However if you ever get a chance to watch the "restoration" that was made from the script and photographs in the AMC Lon Chaney DVD set, you might start to believe that Chaney's makeup was the best part of that film. I'd like to see the original edit of Fritz Lang's Metropolis - even the Kino DVD isn't anywhere close to complete. I'd also love to see the original endings of Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein. Also the bit with Billy Barty dressed up as a baby monster in a high chair in the miniature bottles in Bride.... And the original endings of Pretty in Pink and Little Shop of Horrors (the musical version) - even though they aren't "lost" just under lock and key. RE: London After Midnight. Reportedly, it's not really a very good film. Todd Browning remade it as a talkie. It's called "Mark of the Vampire" and if you watch it, you'll basically see the film, and it's pretty hokey. RE: Metropolis. I thought the last reissue of this was the version that's kept in the Museum of Modern Art. I may be wrong, but I seem to remember reading reviews of it. (I have a VHS dupe of the MOMA version.) |
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Post by mightyjack on Jan 7, 2007 17:36:12 GMT -5
Okay, linking to my Kolchak site for my sig made me remember one.
In the Night Strangler movie the deleated scenes with George Tobias who played a reporter who had written about the "Strangler" murders in the 1930's. Carl tracked him down to garner more of those "facts" on his currrent case/article.
Don't know if they would have even saved this somewhere.
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Post by Wild Rebel on Jan 7, 2007 17:45:58 GMT -5
RE: Metropolis. I thought the last reissue of this was the version that's kept in the Museum of Modern Art. I may be wrong, but I seem to remember reading reviews of it. (I have a VHS dupe of the MOMA version.) It is the MOMA version and it's every known piece of footage that survives. But it's not the whole film as Lang released it. |
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Post by Chuck on Jan 7, 2007 21:30:38 GMT -5
Re: Metropolis.
Turner Classics is running a 153 minute version of it Sunday Night the 14th. (Actually Monday morning.)
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Post by Rodimus Convoy on Jan 9, 2007 6:34:37 GMT -5
Lost Spider Pit sequence to the original King Kong.
Extra scenes James Cameron didn't included into the Aliens: Special Edition. Including Burke's cacoon sequence and Newt trying to bite Hicks a second time, which he replies "Hope the kid doesn't have rabies"
And all the cut footage from Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers. Most of the film was reshot when Donald Pleasence passed on, and although around 45 minutes of the cut footage has been seen on a bootlegged workprint, some of it has yet to be seen by casual fans. A very few selected fans own copies of these extra scenes, but are not allowed to make copies.
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Post by Don Quixote on Jan 9, 2007 9:07:05 GMT -5
The pie fight scene that was supposed to be at the end of Dr. Strangelove. Ever since I heard about that, it made me wish they had more than just photographs of it.
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Post by Famous Mortimer on Jan 10, 2007 13:07:31 GMT -5
This is the sort of stuff the internet would be perfect for. No-one's ever going to re-release "The Breakfast Club" (one of my favourites) and the extra footage that never made it in (with Rick Moranis as the janitor, the teacher checking out women swimming, stuff like that) is just sat gathering dust. Get it out there! Film biz people piss me off sometimes.
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Post by MonsterX on Jan 10, 2007 13:12:51 GMT -5
The spider pit sequence is kinda like the holy grail of lost footage. I would also like to see London After Midnight, even if its not that good.
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