The New York Ripper
For some bizarre reason, two copies of the film are included on the French disc, one running for 1:31:06 and the other for 1:33:06. The shorter version omits a scene in which Dr. Davis has a brief conversation with his secretary that takes place between Williams' interview of Jane's husband and the raid on Mickey Scellenda's landlady's apartment. The longer version is played when you select the audio commentary, the shorter version for English, French and Italian audio - despite the fact that the longer version actually contains the audio tracks for all three languages. The scene is completely missing from the Australian disc.
A further discrepancy shows up in the form of an extraneous shot of Dr. Davis that, on the French disc, is for some bizarre reason spliced into the middle of the final scene, breaking the continuity. This shot should have appeared much earlier in the film, at around the 44 minute mark, when he and Williams have left the hospital. On the Australian DVD, it is completely absent.
Anyway, see the results for yourself here. I think you'll agree that the Australian transfer is much nicer, although I'm fairly sure its colour values are wrong.
4 Comments:
I just made screenshots of the old Dutch non-anamorphic Italian Shock DVD - would you like me to mail them to you ? I can send them as bmp-files. Looks a lot like the Australian release.
By tolpol, at 19:28
Are they the same frames I captured? If so then yes, that would be great.
By Whiggles, at 19:29
Just to confirm, the Anchor Bay runs 93'07". It has the scene with Davis and his secretary and the extraneous footage of Davis near the end. The colours look much the same as the French DVD.
By Philly Q, at 22:28
I just sent you a mail of gigantic proportions.
By tolpol, at 23:34
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