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Missing scene

posted 11 years ago by djrosenblatt
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Just read this in Wikipedia:

Several months after the film's release, Universal Studios decided to shorten the running time by cutting out a scene near the beginning of the film, even though it violated their contract with Cassavetes. All releases (including the Anchor Bay DVD) since that time are missing this scene.

Anyone know what that scene was about, and whether it's available?

Badgers? We don't need no stinkin' badgers! But if you could show us something in a nice possum...

[–] 11 years ago

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[–] djrosenblatt 10 years ago

Afraid not. I can't even recall where I got the original information (about the film being cut) from.

Badgers? We don't need no stinkin' badgers! But if you could show us something in a nice possum...

[–] floatingweeds2000 10 years ago

By a big coincidence I was just thinking about this today. According to Ray Carney the scene involved the Irish girl (played by singer and Activist Holly Near)who Moskowitz gets beaten up for talking to.
In the current film, after he is beaten up, she's seen slowly walking up to him, and we get a jump cut.
According to Carney The next scene showed them spending the night together.

The film is fascinating, and in the first hour it deliberately cuts away when situations look like they're going to keep going (the mother on the flight, Minnie in mid conversation) so it's hard to tell what was done by Cassavetes and what by the studio

Also before I read the Carney I noticed there's a contemporary trailer for the film on youtube which has a brief shot I don't recognize from the movie.
It's Moskowitz in daytime New York, running right down the middle of the street.