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Post by galacticgirrrl on Dec 4, 2022 0:05:07 GMT
This movie had a huge impact on me as a teenager. It pretty much sent me scurrying for a life in the stacks, replete with horn rims, buttoned tight cardigan and tender tootsies. The Karen Ann Quinlan Hospice very kindly posted a copy of it recently and it was great to be able to see it again. However... It doesn't strike me as terrifying or troubling as it did before. I feel as though there must have been a scene at the beginning that is now missing, perhaps of Karen at the party mixing alcohol and drugs? I have tried many sources to check on the official length of the movie but can't find anything definitive. I don't really want to ask the hospice if they edited the version they posted. Does anyone remember watching this movie or such a scene?
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Post by topbilled on Dec 4, 2022 15:54:55 GMT
Interesting...I had never heard of this one before...excellent cast, includes Brian Keith, Piper Laurie and Stephanie Zimbalist.
The IMBd lists it as 2 hours, but that's probably because it fit a two-hour time slot on primetime TV. Minus the commercials, it was probably 95 minutes.
Edit: I just clicked on the link you provided, and it looks like the copy on YouTube is 97 minutes, so that would be the full running time. I would say no scenes have been cut.
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Dec 5, 2022 3:35:50 GMT
I know you are probably right topbilled but I keep hoping there is a missing minute or two somewhere. Watching it as posted just leaves me cold. You don't get to know Karen at all. I can't imagine this would have hit me hard without knowing and basically never seeing the main character in an hour and a half.
I don't remember the format of the tv movies of this era - if they perhaps started with a teaser that was a minute or two of drama before a commercial break and before the opening credits rolled.
It is odd that that there have been no copies on the internet ever before this, as if it was under active copyright monitoring from the family and/or their lawyers.
Ah well. Maybe one of my life's great mysteries. I appreciate you taking time to look at my missing minutes supposition.
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