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Post by Richard Kimble on Aug 16, 2022 13:41:17 GMT
Deleted scenes and cut out (or replaced) actors. Perhaps the most famous cut scene? The pie fight climax in Dr. Strangelove:     Stanley Kubrick with Peter Bull about to throw a pie  Peter Sellers based Strangelove's voice on that of the legendary photographer Weegee ( Naked City), here visiting the set  The pie fight scene exists, fully scored and edited, in the British Film Institute vault. It was publicly screened at the BFI's National Film Theatre shortly after Kubrick's death as part of a retrospective, and the film's production designer, Ken Adam, has stated in interviews that he watched it at around the same time. |
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Post by Richard Kimble on Aug 16, 2022 13:55:37 GMT
Peter Sellers shot six weeks worth of footage for Kiss Me Stupid before suffering a massive heart attack. Rather than wait for Sellers to recover, Billy Wilder replaced him with Ray Walston.    Sellers with Felicia Farr and her set-visiting husband Jack Lemmon (the original choice for the role Sellers is playing here)  Sellers with Cliff Osmond, who later said of the casting change, "Walston did his best, but Sellers was a genius."  |
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Post by Isapop on Aug 16, 2022 14:09:05 GMT
Peter Sellers shot six weeks worth of footage for Kiss Me Stupid before suffering a massive heart attack. Rather than wait for Sellers to recover, Billy Wilder replaced him with Ray Walston. And a real mistake, in my opinion. Sellers would have brought an endearingly nutty charm to the character's jealousy. Walston's was just grating and unlikable.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Aug 16, 2022 14:21:33 GMT
Peter Sellers shot six weeks worth of footage for Kiss Me Stupid before suffering a massive heart attack. Rather than wait for Sellers to recover, Billy Wilder replaced him with Ray Walston. And a real mistake, in my opinion. Sellers would have brought an endearingly nutty charm to the character's jealousy. Walston's was just grating and unlikable. is very nearly a classic. The scenes with Dean Martin are classic. But it can't recover from the miscasting of Walston. Danny Kaye (too old, like Walston) and Tony Randall (better) were both mentioned in the trade papers as being under consideration to replace Sellers. Tony Curtis is an interesting possibility. Wilder immediately replacing Sellers may have been due to the fact that they did not get along (Wilder on Sellers' medical condition: "In order to have a heart attack, you have to have a heart."). But Wilder learned his lesson: when Walter Matthau had his heart attack shooting The Fortune Cookie Wilder waited several months for him to recover -- which is why Matthau's weight fluctuates between some scenes (which were shot months apart).
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Post by Isapop on Aug 16, 2022 14:23:49 GMT
The giant spider attack in King Kong (1933).
Cooper and Schoedsack decided that the scene simply stopped the gangbusters pacing of the film dead in its tracks. It seems the footage no longer exists.
An interesting special feature on the DVD of Peter Jackson's remake: Using Cooper's surviving storyboard sketches as his guide, and using only the technology that was available to Cooper, Jackson recreated the sequence.
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Post by Isapop on Aug 16, 2022 14:30:54 GMT
And a real mistake, in my opinion. Sellers would have brought an endearingly nutty charm to the character's jealousy. Walston's was just grating and unlikable. is very nearly a classic. The scenes with Dean Martin are classic. But it can't recover from the miscasting of Walston. Danny Kaye (too old, like Walston) and Tony Randall (better) were both mentioned in the trade papers as being under consideration to replace Sellers. Tony Curtis is an interesting possibility. Wilder immediately replacing Sellers may have been due to the fact that they did not get along (Wilder on Sellers' medical condition: "In order to have a heart attack, you have to have a heart."). But Wilder learned his lesson: when Walter Matthau had his heart attack shooting The Fortune Cookie Wilder waited several months for him to -- which is why Matthau's weight fluctuates between some scenes (which were shot months apart). Tony Randall would, at least, have been a good choice for the part if you had to replace Sellers. It wasn't surprising that Wilder waited for Matthau. He wanted to make Matthau a star a decade earlier with The Seven Year Itch but the studio nixed it.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Aug 16, 2022 14:36:55 GMT
The giant spider attack in King Kong (1933). Cooper and Schoedsack decided that the scene simply stopped the gangbusters pacing of the film dead in its tracks. It seems the footage no longer exists These two photos appeared in Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine  
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Post by Isapop on Aug 16, 2022 14:43:12 GMT
I still remember those photos, having been a reader of FMF back in the day!
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Post by Isapop on Aug 16, 2022 15:04:05 GMT
The star has died. Cut everything and everybody.
Start all over again with Doris Day and James Garner.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Aug 16, 2022 15:16:27 GMT
Not sure this qualifies, as this footage wasn't cut. The rest of her footage was, though:
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Post by timshelboy on Aug 16, 2022 15:40:35 GMT
I believe Patricia Neal was completely cut out from THE THIRD SECRET
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Post by jervistetch on Aug 16, 2022 15:55:30 GMT
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Post by timshelboy on Aug 16, 2022 16:29:59 GMT
Michael Keaton replaced by Jeff Daniels in THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO
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Post by Richard Kimble on Aug 16, 2022 16:38:44 GMT
Michael Keaton replaced by Jeff Daniels in THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO Didn't Woody Allen reshoot an entire film with a new lead? September? John Cassavetes shot two versions of Shadows, but I don't know what the casting differences were (if any).
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Post by Richard Kimble on Aug 16, 2022 16:44:03 GMT
The Marx Brothers play cards while Huxley College burns down in Horsefeathers. This scene was deleted before release and is now lost.  |
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Post by timshelboy on Aug 16, 2022 16:57:40 GMT
Michael Keaton replaced by Jeff Daniels in THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO Didn't Woody Allen reshoot an entire film with a new lead? September? John Cassavetes shot two versions of Shadows, but I don't know what the casting differences were (if any). Re SEPTEMBER I Think Maureen O'Sullivan & SAm Shepard got replaced with Elaine Stritch and Sam Waterston, and think Dianne Wiest was in both versions. Helena Bonham Carter confessed she spent the whole the of MIGHTY APHRODITE shoot waiting to get sacked! 
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Post by Richard Kimble on Aug 16, 2022 17:08:49 GMT
KMS is very nearly a classic. The scenes with Dean Martin are classic. But it can't recover from the miscasting of Walston. Danny Kaye (too old, like Walston) and Tony Randall (better) were both mentioned in the trade papers as being under consideration to replace Sellers. Tony Curtis is an interesting possibility. Here are Curtis and Lemmon (the first choice for the Sellers/Walston role) visiting the set to wish Billy Wilder a happy birthday 
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Post by Richard Kimble on Aug 17, 2022 6:06:01 GMT
Perhaps the most famous cut scene?  
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Post by Richard Kimble on Aug 17, 2022 6:12:04 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Aug 17, 2022 17:28:26 GMT
Something about Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man 1943. I don't remember all the details, but the monster should have been able to speak in the voice of Ygor, so the casting of Bela Lugosi as the monster doesn't seems that far-fetched knowing that. The monster talking scenes were filmed but then cut. since they sounded too much like Nazi Master Race ideas.
This was just from memory.
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