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Deleted Scenes on TV version?

posted 20 years ago by TelevisionJunkie
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Today's Stephen King day on Sci-Fi, and I'm an admirer of his recent show, Kingdom Hospital, which got me thinking about some of his other TV/movie works and here I am... Does anyone know how much extra footage was aired when this aired on Turner? I didn't care much for the theatrical film, and I taped it when TBS or TNT or whatever aired it -- but I had to go to work shortly after I hit record and have no idea what subsequently happened to the tape. I remember reading that they had specifically prepared two versions (one for theatres and one for cable), but the "alternate versions" section here at imdb only says that the cable version ran 4 hours -- on most films it documents what the deleted scenes were. My memory's shadowy on both versions, but it seems like what I saw of the TV version seemed to make a little more sense right off the bat... much like the original miniseries version of Salem's Lot.

[–] FoldsConeyCat 20 years ago

Well if you've read the book they cut out the woman who bought the Elvis sunglasses for obvious reasons. Also, when Brian (the little boy) is trying to commit suicide I believe he had the gun to his head and they edited it so that you couldn't see the gun held to his head, you could only see the rest of his face.

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[–] CatspawVP 20 years ago

A scene I know is in it (or was as it is in the trailer) is max and ed talking in the rain. It isnt on the dvd version I have but I'm sure it has shown up. It looks like a neat scene so I don't know why it was cut, except maybe it gave more away than they wanted at the time.

[–] LeaBlacks_Balls 19 years ago

Also in the trailer is Gaunts car flipping off the road, and that was never in the movie.