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   From: super70s@super70s.invalid   
      
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    Mack A. Damia  wrote:   
      
   > On Fri, 06 Jan 2023 18:24:35 -0600, super70s   
   >  wrote:   
   > >I think it's a fine film. I wasn't able to see it upon release, the X   
   > >rating it had seems a little quaint nowadays. I think I remember seeing   
   > >the preview for it when I saw Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in the   
   > >West" which ironically was probably more "adult" than "Midnight Cowboy."   
   > >   
   > >Director John Schlesinger was gay and the scene with Voight and John   
   > >McGiver was probably as responsible for the X rating as the brief   
   > >heterosexual scene with Voight and Sylvia Miles.   
   >   
   > Motion Picture Association of America‚s prudish ratings board gave it   
   > an X-rating because of the scenes of fellatio, sodomy and   
   > sadomasochism.   
   >   
   > After it won the Academy Award for Best Picture, the Board begged   
   > Schlesinger to cut some of the scenes, but he adamantly refused.  They   
   > changed the rating to "R" anyway.   
      
   Wonder if MGM/UA ever put this movie out in a decent widescreen format.   
   I own an earlier DVD release (probably the original one) and it only   
   works in "Normal" zoom mode with some serious black bars on all four   
   sides; if you try to zoom it larger it screws up the proportion which I   
   hate worse than watching a smaller picture.   
      
   Maybe they finally got their act together for the Blu-Ray release.   
      
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