This picture was going to be directed by the great late Sam Fuller. It´s a tough film. But there is a softed version, badly cut. In that version, some of the most gruesome parts (violation of a black girl by racist cop, etc...) is deleted. But in some tv channels, you can see the complete version. It´s odd and great.
shareThis picture will never be shown on network television. Why? if you want to see this film in its original uncut all out "R" rated version,you'll either have to see this during a special screening of this film during a session on race relations in America on some college campus during the classroom sessions of American Cimema and Film Criticism 101-taught by some right wing college professor. As far as the movie itself,I saw this when I was little in the theatres with my parents,never knowing what was it all about until years later,I saw this again on a college campus during a midnight screening of this film with some college students,and it shock the living daylights out of me.
THE KLANSMAN proved that back then the KKK was still one of the most dangerous groups in America---in other words,the real terrorists of the South!
Since this movie was made in 1974,there was at the time still heated race issues exploded,and in 1974 some places were still segregated in some parts of the South especially in some of the southern states where individuls were still thinking backwards rather than forward! This is 10 years after President Johnson signed into law The Civil Rights Act of 1964,and a year later The Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Some scenes in the KLANSMAN are especially raw indeed with its graphic depictions of violence,and this movie has a lot of this too,see the uncut version,the way it was meant to be seen,lots of racist comments and strong language-In this movie,how many times was the "N" word used in the film? And not mention scenes of strong sexual content,nudity,acts of sodomy and one including the violent and graphic castration of young black male is too much for the fainthearted. This film was rated "R" by the way for its content.
The casting of Lee Marvin,Richard Burton,Lola Falana,Linda Evans,and a militant
O.J. Simpson-at the peak of his career as a pro football player and actor was a little too much,but for entertainment purposes,this film was a disaster of bad taste,even for the year 1974.
i was wondering why as a young child, your
parents dragged u to watch this movie if it was like
indeed R rated or violent?
Come to the world where the flavor is.
In other words,they didn't know since I was too young to understand. The went to see it because of the starring presence of Lee Marvin and O.J. Simpson.
Where I'm from,here in Durham,North Carolina,we have a black movie theatre that catered to and showed a lot,and I do mean a lot of black exploitation films that were indeed Rated "R"-which meant under 17 requiring parent or adult guardian,and since I had a guardian with me during the screening of this film since any bad stuff were to come up,I would just close my eyes......
The name of the theatre that played a lot of black exploitation films during the 1970's,1980's,and 1990's....and played some adults movies too(but that was banned from the teens and kids in the neighborhood during the after midnight showings,since they showed this real late at night)and the theatre was way over on the other side of town,in the northern part of the city.......
Name? THE RIVERVIEW CIMEMA-Off Highway 501,Riverview Shopping Center
Durham,North Carolina.
Bad taste, to be sure. Richard Burton and Lee Marvin were both totally drunk during the filming, got into fistfights off set. Burton's eloquence was so slurred that the director sometimes did take after take of a certain line spoken
by Burton, and then took the least-botched one.
I went to it in 1974 with one of my old bosses (who was a karate instructor) and we howled with laughter at Richard Burton's martial arts scene.
It was a script that someone thought was a good idea...imagine! Certainly it was an exploitation film, and one of the most bizarre cinematic forays in American film history. Linda Evans portrayed the first rape victim.
Consider other drive-in movies of that era...for instance, Born Losers, the first Billy Jack film, and prepare to puke.
I wouldn't take any of them too seriously; they were just bad, low-budget movies (which sometimes are very hilarious when viewed thirty years later).
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Does anyone know the original aspect ration at which this film is projected? There's an uncut DVD available from another country, but it's fullscreen. Was this film 1:85 or 2:35?
shareI'm sure it was 1.85:1. Which country (& where) is that DVD available?
shareIf you have a region free player, the uncut version is from Denmark. But unfortunately, it full screen. Go to this site for more info...
http://xploitedcinema.com/catalog/klansman-uncut-region-release-p-7447.html
Raysond said: "This picture will never be shown on network television. Why? if you want to see this film in its original uncut all out "R" rated version,you'll either have to see this during a special screening of this film during a session on race relations in America on some college campus during the classroom sessions of American Cimema and Film Criticism 101-taught by some right wing college professor."
That's funny because I thought right wing college professors didn't approve of the use of the word n!##er unless it's blacks calling other blacks that.
The mind is like a parachute; it works best when it is open." - Rickson Gracie
Hypocrites do exist in the world.
shareI got the uncut version from a dollar store in ohio. it is called the buning cross.
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You can get it in "pound stores" in the UK, too - I got mine in poundstretcher, for, er... a pound.
And it's called "Burning Cross" here, too...
Clansman has a different meaning in Scotland!
A Scottish Clansman is different from a KKK Klansman. Notice it's spelled with a K and not a C.
shareIt is uncut and good quality. This website in Sweden gives you the chance to view back cover! However, I ordered it from xploited in U.S. as there doesn't seem to be a website in Sweden (where the uncut DVD version is manufactured) where you can order it from! Look here for cover:
http://www.discshop.se/shop/ds_produkt.php?lang=&id=50386&lang=se&subsite=music&&ref=#
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The Burning Cross Is Not Uncut..
almost most the same amout of the film is cut like the klansman
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