Dear goblinhaired guy:
Since you have the WB Archive DVD of this film, would you be so helpful as to answer a question for me?
I have the VHS version (Turner/MGM/UA Home Video). It runs 116 minutes, which is the running time listed on the IMDb. I've been contemplating buying the Warner Archive version, since the reviewer on DVD Talk says that the picture and sound are better. But I can't confirm the running time.
DVD Talk, and another normally reliable site, say the running time of the Warner Archive DVD is 115 minutes. But all the sites that are actually selling the Warner Archive DVD (e.g., Amazon, and the Warner store online) say that the running time of the DVD is 105 minutes. That would mean major scene-cutting. I have asked a dozen merchants if they would look at the back of the DVD case and tell me the running time, but they all say the DVDs are stored in a warehouse and they have no access to them, so they can't tell me. And in any case, they could only tell me what it says on the case, not the actual running time -- sometimes the information on the case is wrong.
Could you tell me the actual running time of your Warner Archive DVD of Madam Satan? I don't want to buy a version that is missing 10 to 11 minutes, merely to get better picture and sound.
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goblinhairedguy
9 years ago
Hi OFL: Sorry, I don't actually own it, I rented it.
--Fate or some mysterious force can put the finger on you or me for no good reason at all
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OldFilmLover
9 years ago
OK -- but if you happen on a future occasion to be in the store where you rented it, at some time in the future -- it could be a month from now, it doesn't matter -- could you please take a look at the back of the case and tell me the running time?
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goblinhairedguy
9 years ago
My pleasure! Maybe in a couple of weeks.
--Fate or some mysterious force can put the finger on you or me for no good reason at all
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wswofsey
8 years ago
I own this Warner Archive DVD. Total running time is 1:55:35 or 1 hour 55 minutes 35 seconds.
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OldFilmLover
8 years ago
Thanks for taking the time to verify that.
I imagine that a data input error was made, perhaps originally by someone at Warner, and that the error has been copied into the databases of all merchants selling the DVD-R.
The problem with buying DVDs online is that 90% of the vendors don't actually have "stock" in what they are selling; they don't even keep single reference copies of each title they are selling. I asked about 20 different online vendors to actually look at the back of their DVD copy and tell me whether it said 105 or 115 minutes, and not one of them could or would do so. The vendors are apparently sitting in an office somewhere looking at computer data, and the stock is elsewhere. The stock may be owned by a different company entirely. Of course if the vendors weren't lazy, they could phone or e-mail their suppliers and ask them for fuller information when a customer asks; but they hide behind their computer data, saying, "Sorry, that's all the information we have." And they expect you to buy a DVD that looks as if it is missing 10 minutes?
Thanks for not being lazy, like the merchants.
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