Jackson County Jail is edited down
Am I the only one on the internet that saw this in it's first or second year?
This film played on HBO back in late 76' or early 77' and my familly and I saw it (I still have the HBO guide listing it!)
This film is one of the many films of the 70's that has been cut down (edited) and re-distributed in a cut form for years. For so long that people are used to the edited version and will swear up and down that this is the way the film originaly played. The rape scene in the jail is very long in the original, and though I understand this is sensitive material, perhaps because of a crack down on violent films in the early 80's, this 'rape' scene was cut down incredibly. What has been distributed on VHS in the 80's and on DVD today is still the cut version of the film.
As I type this a friend of mine walked into the room and we were discussing these cut films, he pointed out, "are you sure you not just remembering it that way?" to which I replied no. As I pointed out earlier, during this time HBO ran these films over and over. They were not a 24 hour network, nor did they have the inventory of programming they have today. I saw this film numerous times in the space of a month. And further proof that some films were cut down early on and never seen in their original form again are evident on Paramount releases of there horror films. Friday the 13th, Happy Birthday to Me, April Fools Day, all cut down on DVD. All That Jazz released on VHS, Laserdisc, and also DVD is cut down also than what originally appeared.
Just thought I'd post this and see if anyone, anybody, saw this back in 76' or 77' in it's original form. If you saw it on VHS in the 80's, or after, it was already cut.