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Eric Edwards and John Leslie?


I see porn legends Eric Edwards and John Leslie are credited as gypsies. Are these real roles are more or less cameos?

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I don't know who Eric Edwards is, but John Leslie is in the international cut of this, which featured the clumsy insertion (no pun intended) of what I believe to have been an unfinished, aborted porno Essex acquired. In said porno, Leslie does indeed play a gypsy lothario who defiles a pretty white girl, provoking her cattleman's ranch family to rage.

He is not in the U.S. cut., which is the proper version of the film. The international cut with the porno scenes inserted into the middle of it is a complete mess, as that thing goes on and on for something like 25 minutes, eventually derailing the entire second act.

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The international cut with the scenes inserted into the middle of it is a complete mess, (...), eventually derailing the entire second act.


Of course it does since it's a pre-credit prologue and have no reasons to be inserted in the middle of the film... this is what happen when a clueless editor who have nothing to do with a film try to be creative. It plays perfectly fine when watched in its right place in the story.

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