02-05-2009, 07:42 PM
Hummm, I’ll be checking my Japan Unedited Laserdisc of this then. I don’t remember it being cropped but the sound is very tinty due to the film being sped up during the transfer. On a side note about this uncut laserdisc; it was me purchasing the FIRST Japan import version of this title that started the whole hoopla. Don May, Jr., who wrote the article for Video Watchdog managed a Laser Disc Store and did their ordering used my laserdisc. I purchased the disc because it had the Warner Brothers Lego, a different cover and the running time was 1 or 2 minutes shorter than the American version. Little did we know what was inside! When we found out about the footage we contacted Tom Savini and asked if he knew of this. He did not and he couldn’t believe what we were telling him. We sent him a copy and he called Don to thank him and tell him that he thought this footage was gone forever. After the article made its way out to people and they started contacting Laserdisc Stores to see if they could get them, the overseas suppliers ran out of product in under 1 month. That disc was out for at least 1 month without any imports of this title, until mine.A weird, wacky but true piece of history right there.