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Missing scene?

posted 8 years ago by Kumagoro
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I found this item in the goofs section:

Natalie Wood is swimming around in the lake, wearing only her chemise as a kind of one-piece swimsuit, and emerges from the water with bare legs when she is captured by one of the Baron's henchmen. She is taken by the Baron to his castle and thrown into a cell in the dungeon. While in the dungeon she is shown wearing the chemise, together with garters and long black stockings, which she was not wearing when she was captured.

I just saw the movie, there was no scene with Maggie being thrown into a cell. She later reappears in the cell while fully clothed in a yellow outfit, I just assumed they let her take it from her luggage that was on the Professor's car (which they also took). So is that item just made up or was there a missing scene in the version I watched, which was the 146-minute one? I know the theatrical ran for 160 minutes, but I was under the impression the added time was just for overture and intermission, not actual removed scenes. Am I wrong?

[–] riccom 8 years ago

The person who wrote that goof got their scenes mixed up.
They are thinking about when she is thrown in the cell with the Prince in his pink underwear, after Fate has been forced to take the Prince's place.
In the meantime, we have seen Maggie fully dressed again, in the yellow dress, but she ripped that up to make the rope to escape from the upstairs room where Max had loosened the bar.
So, she's had plenty of time to put on the garters and stockings...

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[–] Kumagoro 8 years ago

Yeah, you're probably right about the mix up. Although in that second scene, she's also wearing a jacket (borrowed from a guard or something), so at the very least that should have been noted too.

This goof section is particularly awful, there's plenty of items that are just things the people writing didn't get (like character errors, or intentional humour), and a few that are plain wrong, like the one we're discussing here, or the alleged fact that Leslie and the Baron don't switch from foils to sabers, when they very clearly do (probably the person who wrote that didn't know what a saber looks like in fencing and was expecting some pirate's cutlass or something).

[–] riccom 8 years ago

I posted corrections for both these goofs (suspenders, and sabres) over a day ago, just waiting for the IMDB editors to approve them.

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[–] riccom 8 years ago

It looks like goof updates are fairly low priority right now.
According to the page at http://www.imdb.com/czone/times
they should be "GOLD", i.e. the top 1000 will be processed in one business day,
but it says there are 562 in the queue, and they've only processed items lodged on or before Sep-28, which was a week ago.

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[–] riccom 8 years ago

I see those two goofs are now removed.

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[–] Kumagoro 8 years ago

Thanks for taking the time to do this!

[–] movieghoul 8 years ago

The 146 minute cut is the one released to theaters in 1965. No overture or intermission, and no additional scenes.

[–] riccom 8 years ago

My DVD copy is 159 minutes and 58 seconds, made up of:

6:34 Opening credits
83:38 Part 1
1:56 Intermission
65:28 Part 2
0:31 End credits
1:51 Exit music
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159:58 (Total)

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[–] movieghoul 8 years ago

That's the original roadshow version, but it was never released that way to theaters.

[–] MaximRecoil (4599) a year ago

"That's the original roadshow version, but it was never released that way to theaters."

Where do you think the roadshow version was shown? On roads? It was shown in theaters, obviously.