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Oh dear. The hope would have been, of course, that they made a dupe negative from which to do the cuts. But there are clearly original 1960 35mm prints around should they have thrown out the trims.

And there were a lot of prints in 1960 - the film opened wide - not like today wide - but wide, on August 10. And not great theaters. It was only after its first two weeks and doing the business it did, that it suddenly got some premium theaters in LA. And then ran for quite a while. And I...

I'm sure that was ignored, too. :)

Read and don't ignore Robert Harris's comment. I believe the e-mail in question has been talked about on other forums and on the Turbine site. I shan't reply to any more of your posts, sorry.

What are you talking about, seriously? I said someone at UNIVERSAL, you know, the studio that owns the film, wrote Turbine and told them that what they are releasing is the original theatrical version of Psycho. That's not someone relying on memory - that's the STUDIO acknowledging to Turbine...

Don't think there's much point of carrying on save for the fact that you have repeatedly ignored the e-mail sent by Universal to Turbine saying what they were releasing WAS the original theatrical version of Psycho. Yes, you have managed to ignore that in every single response. It's all good.

All video iterations of this film are the cut version.

No, it means they created a new negative for the "M" version and all subsequent releases. I can't imagine they'd have cut the original negative, but then again, you never know, maybe they did. But you simply want to believe what you believe and that's fine. Those of us, and there are MANY...

There is no convincing those who will not be convinced. Clearly, Joan Harrison was talking about the first scene when mentioning Janet Leigh's SLIP tidying up - in 1960 you have no idea how prurient and shocking that scene was. There are some who believe the trims were made just prior to its...

As Pete said, this WAS the 1960 release version - all cuts were made subsequent to that - I had an e-mail from someone who saw it many times prior to its "M" rating and those shots were always in it, which is the same as my memory. So, all these years Universal has foisted on the American...

It's pretty seamless - the actual transfer is exactly the same as the US Hitchcock box set, with the added fifteen seconds taken from the German print.

Well, there's a finite number of sets they can sell, as it's a numbered limited edition. I think it's around 4500 or 5000, not much more than that. Doubtful they'd ever get anywhere near that, however.

Once Upon a Time in the West played for about two weeks in May. I quit soon after the run to go do summer stock in New Jersey.

Did you ever go there? I worked there as an usher for a few weeks - mostly during the run of Once Upon a Time in the West.

Not sure what you mean. There is the uncut version in English, which has the letter in English, of course,, and they also included the same uncut version but with the German titles and letter insert in German.

IF he was even aware of what they'd done or that the original wasn't in circulation anymore.

Funnily, I was living in NY in 1969 and saw Daddy's Gone a Hunting at the Albermarle in Brooklyn, where I was living for that one year. I WISH that the second feature had been Psycho :)

No, what we're saying is that it also played HERE uncut and was the same as the uncut German - and then was edited for its re-release and TV airings. That is what I think and what makes sense, frankly, given the e-mail the Germans received from Universal.

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