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mrgiles1968
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11/15
Posted - Nov 24 2015 : 11:57PM
I first saw this movie back in the early 80s, in the butchered soft version which was all that was legally available in the UK back then. I remember that in the film I saw there was a scene with Randy West prior to the credits, where he meets a girl sitting in a tree, has sex, then falls asleep and she runs off with his clothes and horse. When I finally got to see the full XXX version, this scene wasn't there. The movie starts with the credits and goes straight into the scene in the barn with Rhonda Jo Petty.
Can anyone confirm if I'm right about the earlier scene, and if so, what happened to it?
Flash All-Star Supporter
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11018 Posts
5/01
Posted - Nov 25 2015 : 1:16PM
IAFD doesn't list that scene, which doesn't mean that it wasn't in the original hardcore version. The DVD, if that is the version you saw, is one of the TVX releases. They have hacked some of their other releases to pieces for the DVD, for instance Irresistible. That isn't necessarily what has happened. Back then there was often alternate footage shot for the softcore releases, the footage you are talking about may have been shot for the softcore version only. To refer to Irresistible again, there are three added scenes for the softcore version and two extended scenes for the softcore version that to my knowledge were never in the hardcore version.
john lyons
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Co-founder of Vinegar Syndrome
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1/08
Posted - Nov 25 2015 : 4:40PM
To clarify regarding IRRESISTIBLE, the awful 87 min cut that bootleg companies are currently distributing is not the full length original hardcore cut, but rather an edited version of the hard cut. Essex Video released the full length, 103 min hardcore cut on VHS in the early 80s.
The soft/cable version of IRRESISTIBLE does have additional scenes, as you mentioned.
Regarding COUNTRY COMFORT, my 35mm print of the film has the scene in question and is the hardcore version, so this too appears to be another instance of a VHS cut eliminating scenes present in the theatrical version.
Flash All-Star Supporter
Golden Age Classic

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5/01
Posted - Nov 25 2015 : 4:48PM
Yes, I had the Essex VHS tape.
I wish someone would release that one on a quality DVD, along with the softcore Simply Irresistible version.
mrgiles1968
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2 Posts
11/15
Posted - Dec 2 2015 : 12:04AM
Yeah, I've noticed this sort of thing quite a lot, where the transfer of older movies onto first VHS then DVD was very poorly done, with scenes going missing or at least being chopped down.
You'd have thought that by now the companies would have learned by the mainstream industry's example, and cottoned on to the potential higher sales of releasing the full intact versions of these films.



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