Deleted scenes that have never been seen

Yeah, I always wondered about that one too!

Steve

 

Filmed but never used scene from Aliens.

 

The ending for the Bugs Bunny cartoon, "The Heckling Hare," that got Tex Avery fired. The final 60 feet of film was cut:

The footage must not exist any more, because it didn't appear on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 3, on which "The Heckling Hare" is included.

On Volume 2, "Have You Got Any Castles?" appeared with the formerly missing "Alexander Woolcott" material restored.

 

He was fired for.... being repetitive?

 

I think it was more about being insubordinate. Avery refused to alter the cartoon, so Leon Schlesinger did it for him.

I've read several stories about the ending of that cartoon. One is that the ending implied that Bugs Bunny "died" at the end, and Leon Schlensinger and Jack Warner though it would be unwise to "kill off" a newly popular ongoing character. That seems to be the most commonly told story, but I've also read that the excised line, "Ooh boy! Here we go again!" was the punch line to a dirty joke or was some kind of a sexual innuendo that was making the rounds in the early 1940s but is lost to modern audiences.

 

Yep, I have a still from that scene in the 'Starlog' movie magazine that accompanied the film's release back in 1986!

 

"Lost Scenes" covers all the deleted scenes that appeared on the official (but OOP) CDRom, including Luke on the Moisture Farm (B&W, no sound), the two Biggs scenes, and a B&W alternate version of the Cantina scene. "Lost Scenes" leaves the scenes untouched, while Deleted Magic puts the scenes in context, adding music to the Biggs scenes, and dialogue (from Mark Hamill in the Star Wars radio drama) to the moisture farm scene. If you only want to see the deleted "A New Hope" scenes by themselves, "Lost Scenes" is all you need. PAL and NTSC versions are floating about. Again, this is all unofficial content that I speak of, so...

 

Thanks. I have Building Empires "on the way", but having difficulty with the rest. Hope to be able to enjoy these!

 

I remembered a big one...

I've always wondered just what the James L. Brooks movie 'I'll Do Anything' was like as a musical (with songs by Prince)!

 

Here's an oldie:

Metropolis (1927)

A full-length feature was shown at the premiere and got SPECTACULAR reviews. It was then edited up, it got mediocre reviews in Germany. It was then heavily edited in the United States, and got absolutely abysmal reviews. Now, a quarter of the film is completely lost.

 

I thought it was just the severed head of a Vietcong and not specificially the head of the sniper at the end of the film.

 

One of the Beatle books, IIRC, said it was a futuristic bubble-top car.

 

www.monsterkid.com

It's about as good for classic horror as this one is for music.

 

The pie fight doesn't exist any more except for stills. Kubrick destroyed materials he cut from his film a lot of times.

 

Yeah, but there are a lot of stills from it--a whole web page full, in fact:

http://www.geocities.com/sunsetstrip/underground/9798/piefight.htm

 

I don't want to sound like I'm doubting you but is there a cite for that? I wonder if it's just an urban legend? I hope it is..

 

But - they're on YouTube. Does this qualify as a scene 'being seen'?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpmYYJn5_bU&mode=related&search=

 

They were released on a CD-ROM about 10 years ago, so I guess that qualifies, too. Still, they have not been officially released in any movie form.

Thanks for the link!

 

So they've never even made it onto a DVD release as 'deleted scenes', then? Sorry, I've never bought any 'Star Wars' releases, but I'm shocked to think the material in question has never been made available as part of an 'extras' supplement.

 

George has to leave something behind for the high-def "Ultimate" release of the trilogy, y'know.

 

I thought as much.

But what will be left for the slated 2027 release of the 'Ultra 3D Holodeck Projector' release of the trilogy? The 'Jawa' casting sessions?

 

SHHH! Don't give him any ideas!

There are thousands of hours of "making of" material for all 6 films. He's not going to run out of "new" stuff to add to releases any time soon.

 

The scene from "Friday the 13th Part 2" where the camp counselors having sex are impaled "two-for-the-price-of-one" with a spear.

The scene as released just shows the reactions on their faces and the tip of the spear under the bed, but the back of the video has a still of their bodies impaled, and the original filmed scene shows the whole murder with blood and goo spurting out of the wounds.

Gross, but Part 2 was always my favorite Jason movie during the splatter craze.

 

No thanks! That would make me really old!

 

Destroyed!? Why?