71 minute version?


My version seems to be 71 minutes. Anyone know about a longer than 67 minute version?

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Probably a "TV version." Allied Artists packaged a bunch of Corman films (including several of his independent Filmgroup releases, as well as movies he made for Allied Artists) in the late '60s, I think it was, for TV syndication, but a lot of the stations wouldn't sign on at first because the movies were too short. In those days, TV stations didn't think their audiences would put up with a 67-minute movie padded out with 23 minutes of commercials in a 90-minute time slot. Imagine! [Nowadays, we get TV broadcasts in America with a minimum of 22 minutes of commercial time in a SIXTY minute time slot!!!]

So, Corman had most of them "augmented" -- years after they were made -- with new scenes to pad out their running length for television. Corman didn't film any of these new scenes himself (at least, not officially). They were mostly shot by Monte Hellman and Jack Hill, from what I've read.

I never heard of this being done to Not of This Earth, specifically, but it was done most definitely to Creature from the Haunted Sea, The Last Woman on Earth, Attack of the Giant Leeches, The Wasp Woman and some others. You can find both the original and longer TV versions of almost all of these movies in different VHS and DVD releases.

I have the 67-minute version of Not of This Earth -- it's the only one I've ever seen, at least since I was a kid -- so I'd love to see the longer version some day, just to see what was added to it.

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Some of the films - in order to increase their length to make a viable television package as mentioned above - including NOTE, had one or more of their scenes put at the front as a type of "preview".

For NOTE, the scene of the alien sending the Chinese man through the teleporter was included before the credits AND in the film itself.

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Thanks for this post. I watched this movie the other night and couldn't understand why they had that preview (it was kind of like a spoiler). It reminded me of what Outer Limits used to do back in the sixties.

My version is 71 minutes, and the preview scene is 1:06. It's not the Chinese man going through the teleporter, it's the two aliens using the teleporter to talk about earthlings and blood.

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I had discovered I had 2 versions of this movie, One of 64 minutes, the other 71. The quality on the 71 minute film was terrible compared to the original 64 minute one. From Wikipedia:

Production notes

The film was released in the USA on the bottom half of a programmed double bill with Attack of the Crab Monsters.[1][2]

Some releases ran 71 minutes. These copies did not include extra material; instead, the distributor edited certain footage twice into the film, for instance a dialogue between Johnson and a representative from Davanna, which appears as a pre-title sequence and again some minutes later into the film. This version circulated on US TV stations, 16 mm copies and on bootleg DVDs and videotapes.

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..along with re-using the scene of the two aliens conversing about blood, there is also a crawl on the screen telling viewers to let go of reality and prepare for a story of horror

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I just noticed a couple more instances of padding:
1) Near the end, when Garland is being chased in the park, she stops and turns right to go up a hill. The film then cuts to a sequence of scenes we just saw with her being chased.
2) At the end, when Birch is being chased by the motorcycle cop, the same type of thing happens where they repeat a chunk of the chase scene.

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2) At the end, when Birch is being chased by the motorcycle cop, the same type of thing happens where they repeat a chunk of the chase scene.


It kind of spoils the whole kill-the-sensitive-eared-alien-with-the-siren device when they do it twice in the same scene.

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