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04-02-2004, 06:00 PM
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my 4th annual dead men don't wear plaid question
I ask this about once a year, and it appears that hardly anyone has seen this film, so I never get an answer, but maybe a new member will know.
I have a vivid recollection of watching this and there being a scene with Steve Martin in a car at a gas station talking to Burt Lancaster while he washes the windshield. This is taken from the movie the Killers. However, on the dvd, this scene is missing.
So, my question is
a) does anybody else remember this scene?
b) does anyone know why it's not on the dvd? (it can't be rights issues, since there are other scenes with Burt Lancaster from the Killers still on the dvd)
c) does anyone by any miracle have a vhs or other version of this film with the missing scene?
Thanks.
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04-02-2004, 07:12 PM
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I've actually seen the film many times, including in a theater, but have no recollection of such a scene.
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04-02-2004, 07:14 PM
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04-02-2004, 11:43 PM
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No, the tv deleted scenes (which I've never seen) are definitely not what I'm thinking of.
I just watched this again tonight, and not only is my memory of this very vivid, but it's pretty clear from the dialogue that it was included.
Basically Juliet is telling Rigby about Swede Andersen and Kitty Collins, and says she's a nightclub singer and he's works in a gas station. Now there's really no reason for her to say that about Swede except that in the next scene (which is now missing), he stops at the gas station and talks to Swede while he does the windshield (in a scene from the Killers). Then he drives on to the nightclub where Kitty work, which is where the current dvd resumes.
On the one hand, I'm certain I saw this scene, and even rented it with it on it (though this was years ago - the more recent vhs tapes I've seen in video stores all have a newer vintage with a run time of 1:29, instead of the 1:30 on the older tapes).
Unfortunately everyone else is like Chad with no recollection of this whatsoever. So maybe I am just nuts, but I'll probably keep asking once a year in hopes of finding someone else who remembers this scene.
"Movies should be like amusement parks. People should go to them to have fun." - Billy Wilder
"Subtitles good. Hollywood bad." - Tarzan, Sight & Sound 2012 voter.
"My films are not slices of life, they are pieces of cake." - Alfred Hitchcock
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04-05-2004, 07:23 PM
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i saw it at the movies but it was solong ago that i just cant remember. sorry.
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04-06-2004, 08:10 PM
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That scene sounds very familiar to me. I have the movie on VHS that I've had for years, but my VCR isn't hooked up so I can't check it. Sorry, George.
Rob
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04-06-2004, 08:46 PM
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Ive got it on VHS from awhile back, if I can find it in the attic.... be back...
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04-06-2004, 09:33 PM
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Rob & William,
I appreciate it.
"Movies should be like amusement parks. People should go to them to have fun." - Billy Wilder
"Subtitles good. Hollywood bad." - Tarzan, Sight & Sound 2012 voter.
"My films are not slices of life, they are pieces of cake." - Alfred Hitchcock
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04-07-2004, 09:59 AM
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sorry, misread the first part...
I remember no such scene either...
WB: Please free Tin Pan Alley Cats and Coal Black an' De Sebben Dwarfs from The Censored Eleven
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01-11-2006, 05:37 PM
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what happened to rob and william.
anyway it was on tcm last night. george did you catch it?
i dvr'd it but havent watched it yet.
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01-11-2006, 08:58 PM
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No, I didn't, and it's likely that TCM has a newer, cut print. It is too bad that Rob & William never got back to us. Oh well.
"Movies should be like amusement parks. People should go to them to have fun." - Billy Wilder
"Subtitles good. Hollywood bad." - Tarzan, Sight & Sound 2012 voter.
"My films are not slices of life, they are pieces of cake." - Alfred Hitchcock
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