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Extra Scenes On TV Version

posted 14 years ago by TheMysteryOne
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Have you ever seen this movie on TV or WTBS/WTCG ( TBS ) ? There are scenes in i tht are not shown on the Movie Channels ( or theater ? ) .

One scene i can remember has Baxter i believe trying to pick up a Fox at a Drive-In Restaurant . He runs her License Plate to get her address & then tells her that she looks familiar to alady he has seen in such & such neighborhood, which is where she lives . She pretty much tells him to F/O . Just after this someone takes a pot shot at the rear window of the police car & takes out the window .

[–] Kerhonen 14 years ago

I haven't seen it, but if this indeed is true, I find it very interesting. Because initially the theatrical version was 16-17 minutes longer than the version we now know. I'd like to see these scenes, if not least because director Aldrich himself was proud of them, but cut them basically due to company pressure.

Aldrich described some scenes involving Don Stroud and his wife. He also said you got to know Spermwhale a lot more, among other things.

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[–] m-knell 13 years ago

Surely that's Roscoe Rules and it was in the film?

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[–] ntj891-1 12 years ago

Yes I saw this movie on TBS many years ago, and there are extra scenes not present in the theatrical release. The sniper at the drive-in, Whalen shooting a man that flees from him after attempting to rape a woman, and Potts and Tanaguchi's encounter with a motorist giving them s**t about giving him a traffic citation, and then accidentally dropping a bag of dope in front of them that he had hidden in his coat are scenes that I remember. There is also a scene where Capt. Drobeck drops a cigar on the roll call room floor as a reward for the officer (Whalen), that shot the aforementioned rapist. "Whoever shot that rapist last night deserves a good smoke!".

[–] everymedia 12 years ago

In the TV telecast of the movie, Van Moot shoots the sniper. In the novel, it was Slate.
There's one scene that was filmed that didn't even make it into the extended television showing. Sam's wife goes after him with his gun. It's a still photo on the inside back cover of one of the editions of the paperback Wambaugh novel.

[–] deontee2002 12 years ago

I remember seeing this YEARS ago and remember that dope dropping scene; if I remember correctly, the motorist was played by Art Metrano from Police Academy. Funny, 'cause I watched this on Netflix last night and there are NO patrol scenes with Potts & Tanaguchi...and isn't Louis Gossett like SECOND billed in the film?

[–] AnonymousReviewer 10 years ago

Would love to see a DVD release with the extra scenes as a special feature.

[–] everymedia 10 years ago

Here's a foreign lobby card of that scene of Sam Niles' wife going after him with his gun. I had never seen this photo before. The photo in the paperback showed Sam Niles in the doorway in terror.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v225/image25/IMDB/Kimberlycopy_zps97 599a74.jpg

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