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Missing Katina Paxinou scene?

posted 18 years ago by PBear_SF
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If it weren't for the fact that Katina Paxinou's name does not appear anywhere in the cast list for this film in the IMdB's listing, I would have worried that I'd fallen asleep somewhere during the watching of this last night (via rental of the CitizenWelles/Focus DVD edition) and missed her.

Actually, I went back and FF'd thru it again just to make sure, and she's definitely not in this print. She's not mentioned in Welles' reading of the cast during the final credits in this edition, either, but she is listed in the cast of the included trailer - where she can be prominently seen as well. She's also credited in the original advertising and (I could swear) I remember seeing her in old TV airings of this movie, here on San Francisco's Channel 26, back in the '80s.

She's always been one of my favourite actresses (unforgettable as the mother in Rocco and His Brothers and in Welles' own Mr Arkadin, not to mention her Oscar-winning role in For Whom the Bell Tolls) and I'd love to find an edition of this movie that has her scene(s) intact.

Does anybody have another video release of the film in which she does appear? Is it her scene that's included on the StudioCanal DVD release, in the extras, as a deleted scene without sound (I've seen a couple of references to this deleted scene being included on that DVD, but nowhere does it say who's in it)?

[–] jolopez 18 years ago

In This is Orson Welles (a book-length interview of Welles conducted by Peter Bogdanovich), Welles says that he cut the Paxinou scene shortly before the movie came out. Unfortunately, I don't know of any video release that contains the scene. I've got the Images DVD, and it's not there.

[–] nextren 17 years ago

Here is the scene and information about it:

http://www.wellesnet.com/Trial_MS_1.htm

[–] PBear_SF 17 years ago

Thank you, that was very informative. For some reason, watching the brief snippet in the trailer, I got the impression that the scene was an outdoor scene (I'll have to go watch it again).

I'll also have to pick up the StudioCanal edition of the DVD at some point. Not only is the missing footage included in that release, the quality of the transfer (as shown on the wellesnet web site's video comparison page) is far superior to to the American DVD release I have.