How did this originally R-rated film earn a PG rating?
Even the DVD box states "If there's a vice or deceit that doesn't roll across the screen as you watch...just wait a few minutes!
The DVD from Paramount is the edited 1972 theatrical re-realease version.
Still even this edited version is not for kids, and deserves a PG-13.
And why didn't Paramount release the original 1970 R-rated version?
Who wants to see "cleaned-up" trash?
I can't believe that the version on the DVD ever received a PG rating, it contains fairly explicit sexual images as well as violence, rape and quite a bit of nudity, in fact, I think Paramount has mistakenly taken the R version and mislabeled it as PG, that's how strong I think it is. IMDb lists the running time at 171 minutes, but the DVD is 177, so I really do think this is the original R cut. MGM made a similar mistake with its DVD of Swamp Thing, it was labeled as PG, but the version on the disc was in fact the unrated international version with added nudity. It was later withdrawn due to some complaints.
shareThanks. That may very well be the case.
shareThe different running times seem to confirm this is the R version indeed - thanks!
(Just a note, though: PG meant a far different thing before the PG-13 rating existed, and in general could include much harder content than you'd expect from that rating today; check out the 1978 version of 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers,' for instance. In this case, though, I think you're right about mislabeling.)
I have brought this to the attention of IMDB but they have NOT acknowledged it in the "alternate versions" for some lame brain reason. I have pointed out the error in running time on the dvd as to the actual running time and the explicet content which is obviously not a "PG".
shareThis happens quite a bit. An Anthony Perkins film named "Edge of Sanity" came out on the DVD with the R rating it originally had. It was cut in the US to get it. The DVD was actually the unrated version with full frontal male nudity that was cut out for the R rating. I'm not complaining (I hate edited movies) but u think the companies would point this out.
shareHer fancy gasping was the highlight in the greenhouse scene, it was even in the trailer I saw a long time ago. Quite disappointing...
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I could have sworn that Anna Moffo had a shower scene and a sexual encounter with Daks when I saw it in the theater many years ago. In the DVD, she poses for photos after the fashion show, and then sings Verdi at Aznavour's party, but that's all we see of her. Anybody remember more?
(How messed up must our movie industry have gotten by 1970 if Olivia DeHavilland had to be in something like this to get work?)
It's all over the Amazon.com page that this DVD of The Adventurers is indeed the original, uncut, un-edited R-rated theatrical version and that Paramount mistakenly labeled the film PG. Repeat, this is not the edited PG version or the further diluted television cut.
shareYes, these type of mistakes do occur from time to time. Another prime example of this happened when Soldier Blue was released on VHS by Embassy Video; it was labeled as PG, but it turned out to be the original, graphically violent R-rated version.
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