just a tragedy it got so badly chopped up by the censors and no director's cut survives.
I don't believe that's the case. I own the Criterion DVD and the version it presents is the two-hour British original, extended digression of children's river battle with apples and wooden guns included. The extras include scenes from the American version, such as the frame with Johnson and his girl back in the States, but I've never felt the need to watch them.
I have to two hour original but it was badly messed about with by the censors which is why there are those odd little gaps in the story- the young US squaddie not going for the meal he's invited to with the old wheelwright and his wife, for example.
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Date: 2013-07-10 05:43 pm (UTC)I don't believe that's the case. I own the Criterion DVD and the version it presents is the two-hour British original, extended digression of children's river battle with apples and wooden guns included. The extras include scenes from the American version, such as the frame with Johnson and his girl back in the States, but I've never felt the need to watch them.
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Date: 2013-07-11 07:28 am (UTC)