German TV Version: 111:22 mins long

Interesting...and odd that a major American film, virtually always in print since its original release, would be longer under foreign auspices than in the U.S. It's not as if anyone had ever heard of two versions (like, say, Hitchcock's "Strangers on a Train"). On the other hand, I've noticed over time that a horde of major distributors' DVDs (and VHS) have promised one length on their packaging, but produced a different running time inside!




"Believe not what you wish to believe, but what in truth you can"

I have the 1936 film "My Man Godfrey". I have three different versions of it. The US version being the shortest and the Canadian version being the longest. I originally had the VHS Canadian version in the 1990s. When I switched to 100% DVDs in 2000, I started replacing (what became available over the years) my VHS with DVD (still got 49 to go). When I got "My Man Godfrey" on DVD I noticed there were scenes missing but didn't remember what scenes. So, I bought another version that came in a collection of 1930s Comedies and it had one scene extra than the single DVD of the movie I had. Then I was surfing one day online and I saw on Ebay the original VHS version I had for sale (I didn't buy it) and looked at the information on it and found it was made in Canada and so I found that version (in Canada) and bought it on DVD.

While the scenes were innocuous and didn't really impact the story, I still wanted the version I originally had on VHS. So now I have three different copies of it.

Reminds me sometimes of US albums. Foreign versions usually have more songs than the original US version. I don't understand why they do that but maybe they do it for film, too?

-Nam

I am on the road less traveled...