The fondling to which you refer is still there, as the above poster said, around 42:00. But you're right in saying that the film has been altered from its original CBS Late Movie broadcast: the opening Vic Perrin exposition about the Devil didn't used to be part of the film, as far as I can recall. The CBS-aired film began with the green titles, with Cornell Wilde driving in the desert. The exposition gives away too much, showing gargoyles in the hatchery, and Bernie Casey's gargoyle face in close-up. This ruins the terror of seeing them gradually disclosed, as the film originally had it.
The back of the VCI DVD cover explains: "Note: Mastered from the longer European theatrical version." Evidently the studio thought that explanation was in order, and commissioned the addition of the Vic Perrin opening narration.
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prometheus1816
8 years ago
That narration has always been there. I remember seeing this on CBS back the night it originally aired. My mom was a nurse who worked a 12 hour shift from 7-7, and I remember my dad, brother and I sat down to watch this. But that narration was there then and every single time I've seen it since the narration has remained. The reveal of the Gargoyles and the hatchery isn't so much an issue for me, since it doesn't reveal their intentions. I mean what the lead Gargoyle says to Boley about defending their kind to the extinction of mankind....that gave me chills.
Sometimes my ruminations are too confusing for someone not inside my head. -Anon
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