YES! Damnation Alley on DVD!

For the network airings, they extended some scenes, and added others... notably, Murray Hamilton (the general) and George Peppard (Denton) have an extended talking scene after the war in the control room; Jan-Michael Vincent (Tanner) and Paul Winfield (Keegan) have an extended scene right after Tanner returns from Barstow (he gives the girlie mags to the guy who blows up the base); Domenique Sanda and George Peppard have another talking scene as he shaves his face (before the hillbillies scene). There are others as well.

One notable "missing scene" is where George Peppard and Jan-Michael Vincent get in a fight right after Peppard's character fails to rescue Paul Winfield's character from the roaches. Peppard pulls a gun on Vincent!

There are a load of scenes that were left out -- this film went thru some serious studio meddling before it was released.

LOL!! Don't think they wouldn't do that! It's a great marketing tool!

With regard to the effects work, I agree, it should all be redone - but that would require too much work for a DVD that will probably retail for $9.99. Would be very easy to do, but you'd have to go back to the original file elements.

Speaking of the effects, I picked up a late-1977 issue of "American Cinematographer" that had a four page article (with pics) about the effects work in "Damnation Alley." They go in to great detail about the sky effects, and how they were done with a series of lasers and mirrors (essentially frame by frame). The impression I got was, that the sky effects were at least partially done by UCLA film students!! That explains a lot.

Interesting photos of scenes that never made it though: A bluescreen shot of the Landmaster, George Peppard and Paul Winfield standing next to it (came early in the film, apparently). Also, a shot of the Landmaster going into the lake at 20th Century Fox's lot, with a pretty intricate set piece of a wrecked building in the back. Interesting stuff...

"As god as my witness... I thought turkeys could fly."

It'd be nice to get the film not only released on dvd, but for someone to check the vaults at Fox and see if they can find all the footage that was cut from the director's original edit of the film.

Apparently according to Jackie Earle Haley the studio didn't 'get' the film at all, even though they greenlit a pretty significant budget to shoot the damn thing, and upon seeing the final cut they panicked, fired the director, and the studio then recut the film, removing something like half an hours worth of plot and character development scenes, as well as at least one major action sequence. Haley, Jan Michael Vincent and especially a very vocal George Peppard were all unhappy with the final released version.

It'd be nice if they could dig up that old cut footage and give us both a theatrical and a restored cut on dvd/bluray, but that seems highly unlikely given that they have shown no interest in even releasing a vanilla bare bones dvd of the film.

just confirmed for bluray aswell.