bdsweeney wrote:
Not sure exactly where to post this as I could not find a specific thread on the topic.
Anyway, here we go and it's a well-worn topic.
The current DVD 2-disc version of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. A few questions:
Am I correct in believing that it does not contain the 1988 Turner version of the film?
If it does only contain the supposedly inferior verson—as someone who has NEVER seen the film, is it better to see the 2005 version if that is all that is available than not seeing the film at all?
Or is the 2005 cut an abomination that is just not worth dealing with and I should just hold out hope that Warner will see the light and eventually release the 1998 cut?
Thank you
I'm confused.
Here are the cuts of PAT GARRETT I'm familiar with:
1) 1973 theatrical release - a result of butchering by James Aubrey's boys at MGM.
2) TV cut which was syndicated sometime afterwards, which offered scenes that weren't in the theatrical cut, including one with Barry Sullivan as Chisum. I saw it on a local New York TV channel in the late '70s or early '80s.
3) Director's cut -which I saw at the Film Forum in NYC, probably in the late '80s/early '90s, whenever it premiered, and which came out on VHS (which I have) not long after.
Okay, I'm assuming that when you say the 1988 Turner cut, you're talking about the director's cut which I saw theatrically and which came out on VHS, although I've never heard of it referred to as the Turner cut. Why is it called that? IF that's what we're talking about.
What is the 2005 cut?
Anyone?
Thanks.
[P.S. There are scenes in the TV cut that are not in any other version.]