I rented a DVD version of this film and found it pretty much mutilated. The nude scenes were deleted and many words were bleeped out. I can only assume this was taken from a print edited for television. Does there exit a DVD of the entire unedited film?
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I got it on a budget DVD, "Classic 70s Films." Promotional copy: "A collection of three classic 1970s films. Includes, BORN TO WIN starring Robert De Niro and George Segal; KATHERINE starring Sissy Spacek, Henry Winkler, and Art Carney; and THE HARRAD EXPERIMENT starring Don Johnson and Tippi Hedren." Picture and sound quality are what you would expect from a $7 DVD, but Don Johnson is FULL FRONTAL, baby.
shareHe looked sexy too.
shareI bought the original VHS tape and it has 96 minutes and Don's frontal nudity scenes. Then a few years later I bought a DVD version. It came wihtout his frontal nudity scenes !!! AND the image quality is much inferior than that of the VHS.
So what did I do ? I made a copy with my Panasonic DVD Recorder, of my original VHS tape and now I have it on DVD uncut. My tranfer from VHS to DVD had MUCH more quality than the darn DVD I bought. The Panasonic recorder uses only the amount of compression necessary to fit the 96 minutes on DVD (FR speed mode) and it makes for a much better transfer than the SP mode other DVD recorders use.
By now you may have gotten what you were looking for, this being close to the 1st annversary of your original question. (Happy anniversary!) If, not, below is the version I found in a bargain bin. Definitely naked bodies in evidence. Whether or not it (the film) is uncut, I couldn't say.
http://www.tlavideo.com/details/product_details.cfm?id=200533&c=-1&v=1&sn=1
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I just bought the American Home Treasures DVD (30290-D) mentioned above and it is without doubt the complete unedited version, with all the nudity - male, female, full-frontal -ALL of it.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
"If you don't know the answer -change the question."
Has anyone heard any rumors if a studio is thinking of re-releasing an unedited cleaned up version of this movie? I read a review on Amazon that the 70's Classics version is as close to unedited as there is, but that the quality isn't all that good. I wish a studio would release a restored cleaned up version of this classic film. It was a ground-breaking and talked-about film of the 70's that definitely deserves respect.
shareYes. The Marengo Films release looked to be edited for television. It was insulting to see someone else's judgment imposed on what I should view, since the scenes and dialog that were cut seemed to be part of the essential point of the movie. To make matters worse, the copy they transferred to DVD was noisy and somewhat jumpy.
The 3-in-1 DVD containing Harrad, Katherine, and Born To Win reportedly has the closest you can get to what the director put in the can. Amazon has it, among others. The story can only be helped so much, though. :-(
my dvd version had "Sweet Sixteen" on the other side and had a large number of nude scenes but seemed choped up.
shareThe Marengo print is hacked to hell. I got it right after it came out and wrote a nasty letter to Marengo Films... then felt guilty for being so brutal when I quickly got a response from the guy who runs the company. He had never seen the film before acquiring the print and had no idea at the time that it was edited. I will give 'em credit for remastering -- too often with films that have fallen into public domain, the quality's awful. The handful of Marengo discs I've seen have been better than average quality for public domain films. It's really a shame that they got a hold of a censored print.
Anyway, this certainly isn't the greatest copy in the world (it's ripped from the old Wizard VHS release), but here's the uncensored version:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2059913950722761285
My DVD version of The Harrad Experiment is on a double dvd set called "Student Bodies" issued by Brentwood as part of what seems to be called their "4 movies, All Night Movies" series. The cover states the running time as "Approx. 97 min." (which sounded like an uncut version, which is why I picked it up), but it in fact runs some 88 minutes, so does appear to be heavily cut. The picture quality is pretty good. Now I need to rewatch to get an angle on what (if anything) was edited out.(The 3 films it comes with are: Seniors; Getting Wasted; & Secrets of Sweet Sixteen - none of which I played for more than a minute or two as they all seemed to be 80's Porkys-style "comedies").
shareThe ONLY video version which has ever been of the original full-length and uncut, complete theatrical print (as stated in the "Alternate Versions" section of the page here for this film) is the old Wizard Video VHS release.
The EXACT running time is 97 minutes (I just recently got ahold of a copy of it).
All the other DVD releases talked about here (and as explained in the Alternate Versions page here) are all varied running times....some of the releases contain all the nudity while other releases don't....but all of them are cut-down, shorter and/or censored versions. Regardless of some of those releases containing all the nudity or not, none of them are the original 97 minute release.
That explains it very succintly.(And I didn't know the Alternate Versions section contained that sort of invaluable information. Many thanks...).
shareOddly enough, there is a Google video version that has frontal nudity and is 97min long.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=The+Harrad+Experiment&hl=en&; amp;emb=0&aq=f#
I know the video quality isn't much, but, at least, you can see what appears to be a complete version.
Watch it while you can! :o
Netflix has the censored TV version, almost certainly the Marengo Films print. Site users are well aware its the censored version, too, and have very adamantly voiced their dislike for it.