From: nebusj-@-rpi-.edu   
      
   Scorpio42@webtv.net (William) writes:   
      
   >Monday evening, I was delighted to see they were showing "The Brain That   
   >Wouldn't Die" on TCM.   
      
   >"Great!" I thought. I'll get to see the uncut version, and maybe some   
   >cool stuff that the MST version had to leave out.   
      
   	I was watching just the same thing.  I wasn't expecting it even   
   though I know we were warned about it coming up soon; I'd figured it   
   would be part of the TCM Underground slot, I suppose, and didn't quite   
   internalize the airing date.  But I ran into the midst of that Buster   
   Keaton movie at the end of WiiFit exercises and stuck around.   
      
   	I *did* love how ... disquieted ... Robert Osborne looked as   
   whats-his-name explained why he considered this movie part of his set   
   of 'The Essentials'.  Sleaze and creepiness, was the pitch, and yeah,   
   the movie delivers.   
      
      
   >How mistaken I was. The TCM version showed Dr Cortner going into the   
   >strip club, but left out the part where the two cheap strippers were   
   >trying to pick up the doctor, and their ensuing wrestling match.   
      
   >Then, when the monster-mutant behind the door grabbed Curt's arm, they   
   >cut the part where he staggers upstairs, smearing blood on the wall.   
      
   >And to top it off, in the final scene where the monster-mutant finally   
   >gets his mitts on Dr Cortner, TCM cuts out the part where he takes a   
   >bite out of the doctor's neck and throws the morsel on the floor.   
      
   	Thank you for confirming this.  I thought that I had somehow   
   managed to overlook these scenes, particularly the strippers having   
   their catfight over Doctor Idiot, and scanning forward and back on the   
   Tivo couldn't recover the scene.   
      
   	It also made me notice just how *long* Jan-in-the-Pan spends   
   taunting Shrivelled Hand Man.  The whole scene after what should have   
   been the stripper catfight drags on for something like eight minutes;   
   it's amazing Mike and the Bots weren't clawing at the walls to get to   
   *anything* else.   
      
      
   >Holy neck juice! How squeamish can you get? Even MST, which tries to   
   >edit some movie content down for acceptable viewing, left those scenes   
   >in. I felt those particular scenes were ciritcal to the movie, to set   
   >its tone and give it some real emotional punch.   
      
   >Even MST's comedy rendering of the film displayed a ton more courage and   
   >integrity than TCM. Maybe this fact is old news to most of you, but I   
   >was shocked. Or maybe I should say "not shocked in the slightest," after   
   >watching this old horror fave on TCM.   
      
   >I'll know better next time.   
      
   	I'm very surprised since TCM has generally been respectful of   
   showing the whole movie, bad and good, from start to finish.  It's just   
   out of character for them to show a trimmed movie even for something   
   running at 6:30 pm Pacific Time.  Is it conceivable that the movie was   
   originally released in a couple different cuts and TCM had an expurgated   
   version maybe without realizing it?  Does anyone remember what shape it   
   ran in as a TCM Underground feature?   
      
      
   	Also was anyone besides me charmed by the closing title giving   
   a copyright date of, I believe, ``February 15, 1962'', as if 1962 was   
   somehow inadequate?   
      
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   								Joseph Nebus   
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