Location??
Anyone else tape this on TCM last night?
Where are the rowhouses that they have the cookout at?
Dam!
They showed this on TCM the other night?! &#%@%*!!
Even though I have this on DVD, I still would have watched it, oh well.
To my knowledge, the rowhouses are located in Bayside, New York (Queens). Or somewhere very near that area. Not too far from the Long Island Expressway (if you are familiar with New York geography/locations).
Yes it was on TCM glad I taped it. While it was a good movie, the dirty cop genre is just overdone nowadays.
"We have guided missiles and misguided men."
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Great!
Let ask you: exactly how did the TCM version end?
I ask because I have the DVD for this movie and the ending on it seems to be different from what I remember seeing on the TV version, back in the '80s.
1. On TV: The very ending - Joe and Tom escape from Central Park, they show Joe and Tom driving somewhere(?), or maybe they were in the pool(?). Then they show the funeral and all its mourners.
The camera then shows Joe and Tom again. Then pans back to shots of the mourners, tombstones and then back to Tom and Joe. This happens a few times and then they show Patsy's boss(?). And then the end credits roll.
2. On the DVD: After Joe and Tom escape the mob in Central Park, they show Tom and Joe in the pool relaxing. Then they show the cemetery and the funeral. They show the mourners and then Patsy's boss. Then they show a close up of Patsy's boss and the credits roll.
This is crazy. If my memory is correct about the TV version, someone really did a hatchet job to the DVD.
So what was the ending on the version you saw on TCM?
The DVD ending is what they showed....but since this is TCM they usually go with the real ending so I'am guessing it's been a while since you saw this on TV?
Basically like you said after they get away with the robbery, they show them in the pool, then they show the mourner and then the closeup of the boss, and then it ends. So I don't see a hatchet job since TCM shows most of their movies with endings unchanged. BTW I hated that ending, I wanted to see both Joe and Tom buried six feet deep. LMAO
One question for you are there any extra for this or is it a bare bones DVD?
"We have guided missiles and misguided men."
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Thanks for your reply!
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"One question for you are there any extra for this or is it a bare bones DVD?"
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"Special Features" - Original theatrical trailer.
Also the movie is modified to fit the TV screen - "Full screen" (ug!). No commentary from the actors or director. Oh well.
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"BTW I hated that ending, I wanted to see both Joe and Tom buried six feet deep."
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Y'know, I think that’s what the original, or i'll say the "TV version" ending was telling the viewer/audience. That they don't get away. I do remember that ending (they used to show this on TV quite a few times back in the '70s and '80s). I also remember one time asking my mother (I was a youngin' at the time) "was does that ending mean?", as the movie was ending on TV (she was watching it too). She said "it means the mob will eventually get Joe and Tom".
I now remember this because, to me that ending was ominous. Not something to forget (regarding this movie). With the ending I remember, that panning of the camera - from Tom and Joe to the mourners/cemetery, then back to Tom and Joe that was eerie to me. And I don't believe it meant Joe and Tom would live happily ever after with that money.
I believe they *may* have even showed the "DVD version" (implying Joe and Tom get away) back then, too. Don't believe I liked that "switch up".
Well, unless there is a "Director's cut" DVD coming out, this DVD version will be the, i'll say the "unofficial" ending.
But now I do remember the TV version ending, not the DVD version, being shown on TV. Even though I liked Tom and Joe, that was the better ending (TV version). Maybe the director/writer/???? had a change of heart about the ending.
The book explains the ending: A few weeks after the Tom and Joe grabbed the basket from Central Park, they learned that the mafia guy they took the money from was killed by the mob. They understood that someone higher up had written off any chance getting that money back and had punished the guy who lost it, so they knew they had gotten away with it.
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