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Bo derek stripped naked by natives


I have heard that there are some scenes that did not make it into the finale cut of the film. One of cut scenes has Bo being stripped naked by the native women. Also in the scene where we first see Bo being washed by the native women, there are five women washing Bo down (excluding the native girl holding up the water funnel). Then in the next shot of Bo's scrub down, there are now four women in the scene and the fifth native has just vanished. Obviously there were scenes cut from the film. Anyone know anything?

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I never paid attention to the extra/missing native person, I was fortunate to see a blackmarket video version back around the time of it's release. My older Brother had a video distribution business and acquired it from the US. The cut scenes I saw were her being surrounded by 3 or 4 half naked women/girls while bound by her wrists and being stripped the women excitedly performing the task...and then being led to the washing platform. The washing sceneitself was a little bit longer and from what I vaguely remember that one native moved from washing her front to moving/reaching lower down too. The painting/white mud scene was also longer too by a minute or two and showed more attention to her breast and thigh area and by one woman in particular in a semmingly very deliberate motion. Not sure if was one of the same women who was washing her beforehand. This is from memory over 30 years ago.

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I wish they had left those scenes in. When Jane was being stripped did one native girl do the undressing while the others held Jane or did they all just gang up on Jane and ripped her clothes off? Also I have read somewhere that they was a cut scene during the painting sequence of Jane having her head held by the green native girl while another native girl smears white paint into Jane's face and hair. Did this appear in the deleted scenes that you saw?

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From what I remember of the stripping scene, was that they had her surrounded by 3 or 4 native girls who were talking amongst themselves in an excited manner while Jane periodically struggled and protested while they were stripping her. You didn't see much of her naked body as she was surrounded by native girls most of the time...one looked like she was holding Jane's tied wrists or arms above her head, while standing in front of her, while the others were getting her nude and there was a 4th or 5th native girl off to the side of the melee curiously inspecting her clothes and boots as they were being removed by the others. The dialogue from what I remember was her saying something like.... "Stop it...what are you doing?....no I'm not like you... I'm not one of you.... I need my clothes..." or similar words. There was further dialogue that I remember during a close up of her naked or bare breasted closely surrounded by the naked girls who weren't as tall as Jane and not clear what was happening to her at this point or if she was fully naked at this time, but I remember she said something like.... "This is not happening to me"

Then a further away shot showing her naked as she was seen being dragged/ushered away by the giggling women... I assume for the washing ritual.

With the painting scene I vaguely remember a short close up of her head and hair being painted right at the beginning... her face especially.. not sure if you saw how many were doing it, as the camera's close proximity and I think this was probably happening after she was calling out to her father/the other captives telling them what was happening to her, before the camera panned to show the rest of her body being painted.

However for most of the cut scenes I remember I saw were of a more racy nature (which was obviously why they were cut in the first place) for at one point one of the native girl's hands was lingering while painting her breasts and then one hand moved down to the loin cloth area and for a brief second appeared to slide underneath the loin cloth... this scene was broken up by showing Tarzan on his way to rescue her/them. When the scene returned to the tribal village and Jane, she seeemed to whimper without saying anything more as apparently the same native's hand was seen moving away from her lower region and then showed more of other girls hands painting her legs/thighs and upper body area while she twisted and struggled in the loose retraints. I recall there were other cut scenes but these were unrelated to these scenes.

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Hi bellinboots, thanks for the replies. Really wish they had kept those missing scenes in. Maybe one day they'll turn up on the net somewhere. Somebody must have those deleted scenes. Just out of interest what's your take on Kathy Shower being oiled up by native women in Adventures of Tennessee Buck?

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So do I - I would pay good money to those missing scenes Tennessee Buck.
Check out also Ursula Andress in Slaves of the Cannibal God. There is a great scene where she is tied up naked against a post with her hands above her head. Then two native women cover her body with a sticky red liquid. Nice.

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They still show Bo Derek in the nude but I did not pay attention on how many were taking care of her though.

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