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Subject: Around the World in Eighty Days Author: Michelle [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 03:23:50 10/12/02 Sat Does anyone know the exact running time of Around the World in Eighty Days? According to the Internet Movie Database, it's supposed to run for 175 minutes, but the copy I have says the running time is 139 minutes! I find it hard to believe that more than 30 minutes of footage has been cut during the transfer to video - I certainly hope the Internet Movie Database is incorrect! [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: Around the World in Eighty Days Author: Susan [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 16:51:37 10/15/02 Tue I was at the video store last night (after watching Soldiers Three this past weekend for about the tenth time, I've decided I need to see more Cyril Cusack movies!) and happened to see Around the World in 80 Days, so I checked on the time for you. I'm sorry to say that the time listed on the box was 179 minutes (just a minute short of the three hours)--on two videocassettes. So if yours is only 139 minutes, I'm guessing it's been edited it down to fit on a single tape. You're probably not missing too much in terms of Robert Newton though--they've probably just edited out some of the long, drawn-out pans of scenery and parts of the bullfight and flamenco dance, which don't advance the story and go on for so long they could almost be short documentary films in themselves ... There's plenty that could be cut out without having to lose any of the dialog! (In fact, if you cut out *everything* that doesn't advance the story, you could probably get the movie down to *under* two hours!) [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> Subject: In other words ... Author: Susan [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 16:56:12 10/15/02 Tue ... it seems that there are *two* different versions of the video release--an edited version and an "unabridged" one. I'm sure the unedited one is still available--at least that's the one I still see on TV about every other month or so. Meanwhile, I'm still looking for a letterbox version! [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> Subject: Re: In other words ... Author: Michelle [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 02:58:21 10/16/02 Wed Thanks for that info, Susan. It's a shame that only the edited version is available on video here. But as you said, the cut scenes are probably not integral to the plot anyway! Do you think any Robert Newton scenes would be among those edited from the version I have? You mentioned in your review that the TV version cuts out a card-playing scene or something like that? I hope that isn't the case with the version I have! Michelle :) [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: In other words ... Author: Susan [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 10:33:37 10/16/02 Wed Well, maybe I wasn't clear about the card-playing scene ... Because the picture has been edited to fit on a television screen, they had to snip off some of the picture from the left and/or right side the scene throughout the film--as opposed to the letterbox version, in which you get the full picture as it was shown on the movie screen, but then it's shrunk down with lots of black space at the top and bottom of the screen. Neither one is really ideal. So in the TV version, you can't see both sides of the table (both Bobby and David Niven) during the Whist game on the train. They closed up a lot more on Niven than on RN. I'm sure they showed a few shots of them, but I must've blinked and missed them! I seriously doubt that any of Robert Newton's scenes were cut out since there was so much other stuff they could have cut without losing any dialog, but I don't know for sure since I don't have a copy. Hmm, maybe you know someone in the U.S. who'd be glad to record the full version for you next time it's on TV here? ;-) [ Post a Reply to This Message ]