The gruesome hair cutting scene

I believe this was the film I saw which grossed out both my sister and me with its hideous hair cutting scene. Poor Jane is being punished for something, and they order her hair cut --she stands, crying "No! Please! My hair!" (pronounced in an English accent "HA-YER")She doesn't just say this once but at least 3-4 times and this scene went on quite long, cutting between her crying and reaction shots; in subsequent showings, it was edited down, I think, to just one anguished cry by her. I have tried to watch this film on broadcast TV over the years, and noticed a lot of scenes were edited out. Another poster noticed that scenes were cut, so I guess these scenes are lost, unless some one restores it. But the hair cutting scene was hideous. I compare that with the notorious scene in "Born Innocent" where Linda Blair's character was raped with a toilet plunger handle. The first showing on network TV was the longest and most graphic (I didn't watch that night, though!); subsequent showings edited it down or cut it completely.

My sister, at 22 years old, was horrified, remembering everytime she was forced into a haircut, and wrote an angry letter to our folks.

Meanwhile, I read the book a few times; it was inaccurate: Jane's hair was not cut, and maybe neither was that of anyone else. This stupid man who owned the school told the headmistress regarding one girl with curly hair, that her hair was to be cut; and likewise the topknots of all the older girls, because he felt they were all too vain. He was an idiot, ordering the topknots of the girls to be cut OFF, instead of simply just styling their hair differently, in ponytails or a single braid. But I had the feeling that the headmistress was not going to obey him. So the horrid haircut never occurred in the book.