I have read certain places that there are two versions of the movie "Gunn". I own a copy that I got on ebay that was the US version. I have also read there is a version that shows Sherry Jackson Nude. I read it was released in the UK back in 1967. Is this true and how do I get a copy of it if it's true.
Thanks!
Although I haven't seen it, I think you're right, but good luck on finding it. However, there was a pictorial spread in Playboy around the time this movie was coming out showing those clips. As a matter of fact, Wikipedia says this:
When Blake Edwards brought the popular Peter Gunn from the television screen to the movies, Sherry Jackson was filmed in a nude scene that appeared only in the international version of "Gunn", not in the US cut. Stills of the nude scene appeared in the August 1967 issue of Playboy Magazine, in a pictorial entitled "Make Room For Sherry". The movie has never been released on VHS or DVD.
would love to see this lovely sherry jackson one of my first crushes. love brunettes with beautiful smiles. yes her bbbrreeaassttsss are lovely too as playboy shows
shareI have been trying to get the international version of GUNN for years. I was able to see the US version in the theater and it was great. I have the PETER GUNN collection on DVD as well as Blake Edwards re-make (1989) WITH PETER STRAUSS doing a different but fine take on the character. It was written and directed by Edwards as a new series pilot but, of course rejected. I do own that on DVD. As for SHERRY JACKSON she is the only reason for my quest for the international version. Her nude scenes and a great shot of her sitting up nude in a bed are in the AUGUST 1967 issue of PLAYBOY.
Regards,
Rock Hunter
In mid-Sixties, Playboy was always running layouts on even most innocuous US releases, depicting (for then) stills of pretty racy nude scenes allegedly intended only for foreign audiences. (Like a topless layout of The Girls of Funny Girl--or nude Sherry Jackson scenes in routine general audience detective movie like Gunn.) In retrospect, seems to have been a big Hollywood con job to make not particularly sexy movies seem more titillating with photos of upcoming starlet willing to pose for a few nude shots on the set during lunch break or whatever.
Think about it: If racier prints of these movies do indeed exist, why haven't they resurfaced via ebay, Internet, NetFlix, etc.? Or why haven't studios released them on VHS or DVD for home video market? Of course, by late Sixties, with collapse of censorship and advent of ratings system, whole thing became a moot point anyway.
Only movie I'm aware of to be re-released domestically with racy European footage is Rock Hudson 1966 thriller Seconds, which does include full-frontal female nudity during grape-stomping orgy not seen in US release. Although it wouldn't raise an eyebrow today, still seemed jarring for mainstream movie of mid Sixties.
See what this does for you.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_jWGu50-htgE/TIeolwIfMlI/AAAAAAAAPns/H8sGagRrVHE/s1600/27Sherry%2520Jackson%2520%28Stingray%29.jpg
Hefner paid Jackson for this shot, which was NOT incorporated into the movie.
You can see from another shot at the site that Jackson was wearing pasties during her "nude" scene for the movie.
Well, here it is, straight from Ms. Jackson's mouth, no nude scene was ever filmed, hollywood myth:
http://www.examiner.com/classic-movie-in-new-york/the-times-they-are-a-strange-thing-sherry-jackson-and-the-end-of-the-1960s
My dad worked on this film. No nude scene was ever filmed.
Anyone can edit wkipedia and the claim there was a UK version with nudity is complete BS.