What Scenes Were Cut When the 132-Minute Original Was Slashed?
My VHS of Juarez (Key Video = CBS/Fox Home Video) runs about 2 hours and 25 seconds. That's about 12 minutes short of the original 132 minutes.
I see that the MGM VHS runs about 2 hours and 3 minutes, but does it contain any more scenes, or does it just play a little more slowly with the same contents?
The new Warner Archive DVD appears to have a run time of about 2 hours, i.e., the same as the Key Video VHS.
So it looks as if we have *at most* only 123 minutes of the original 132 minutes, no matter which product you buy -- and it may be that even the 123-minute MGM is not actually any longer than the others in terms of actual material contained.
I strongly suspect that some scenes of Bette Davis in France were cut, as the last part of the film is spotty on the progress of her madness; also, it seems, some of the intrigues involving Joseph Calleia's character may have been trimmed. Does anyone know anything about possible deletions and what they contained?