Who had the bright idea to put the rating of PG on the front of A Fistful of Dynamite's IMDB page? LOL!!!!!
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My two dvds are rated '15'.
shareOn it's original American relase it was heavily edited to receive a PG rating and marketed as a fun western adventure.
shareThe PG rating was a little different back then. Movies like The Getaway, Jaws, The Killer Elite, Airplane and Poltergeist were rated PG back then when most of them would be rated R today. The cut 138 minute version of Duck You Sucker would be rated R today as well. The Laserdisc version of Duck You Sucker released in 1995 had a self-applied R rating on the cover, though.
You should also see some of the stuff they used to pass as G rated. Ben-Hur, Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, The Andromeda Strain and Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger were all rated G but would most definitely be PG-13 today.
It was censored for language and violence to get the PG rating. (not whole scenes like in the different versions, but frames taken out of gunshot wounds and language redubbed.) This version of course no-longer exists on any format.
The version on DVD now would have gotten an R at any time.
That is true, but this version would be rated higher than PG today, I assure you. It may get by with a PG-13, but just barely. There's still a lot of violence (The huge headshot wound in the carriage, the massacre in the pits, the executions in the rain as well as Juan's gunning of Gunther Ruiz) and we can still see most of the seduction scene as well as the bare ass closeup afterwards. There's also one "fµck" left intact in this version, when John says "I don't give a fµck about your revolution". Standards were definitely different back then.
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