Will Krupp
Senior HTF Member
Okay, I got my set today and took a quick flick through them just to see picture quality, and then we decided to watch STAGE DOOR all the way through.
I was dumbfounded!! It's got a different ending than the one I remember! The different ending is a spoiler so I'll put it in a tag
After Terry leaves the theater and the film fades into a quick montage of her stage successes, her triumphs are interspersed with a groundskeeper cutting the grass on Kay's gravestone!!!
Now I was sure the VHS and cable versions I was used to cut right from Adolph Menjou in the dressing room to the newspaper headline about the Footlights Club but, to be sure, I dug my old VHS copy out and sure enough, that sequence isn't there.
I never saw the LD version of STAGE DOOR (I assume there was one) so I don't know if this extension is there as well. If not, it must be newly restored. I haven't heard anybody mention this yet (if they already have, I'm sorry but I couldn't find it)
This really threw me for a loop. I assume it was removed for a reissue (and I can guess why...sheesh, it IS a real downer!)and it was a reissue print used to master the old cable and VHS versions (even though the old VHS box proclaimed it as the "original studio version.")
It's quite a shock when you aren't expecting it and I was pretty excited to see something different in a movie I am so familiar with, but I haven't yet seen anybody make reference to it...which makes me think it may have already been present in the LD. Can anybody help on this??
I was dumbfounded!! It's got a different ending than the one I remember! The different ending is a spoiler so I'll put it in a tag
After Terry leaves the theater and the film fades into a quick montage of her stage successes, her triumphs are interspersed with a groundskeeper cutting the grass on Kay's gravestone!!!
Now I was sure the VHS and cable versions I was used to cut right from Adolph Menjou in the dressing room to the newspaper headline about the Footlights Club but, to be sure, I dug my old VHS copy out and sure enough, that sequence isn't there.
I never saw the LD version of STAGE DOOR (I assume there was one) so I don't know if this extension is there as well. If not, it must be newly restored. I haven't heard anybody mention this yet (if they already have, I'm sorry but I couldn't find it)
This really threw me for a loop. I assume it was removed for a reissue (and I can guess why...sheesh, it IS a real downer!)and it was a reissue print used to master the old cable and VHS versions (even though the old VHS box proclaimed it as the "original studio version.")
It's quite a shock when you aren't expecting it and I was pretty excited to see something different in a movie I am so familiar with, but I haven't yet seen anybody make reference to it...which makes me think it may have already been present in the LD. Can anybody help on this??