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Originally Posted by thatguamguy
The IMDb mentions a 140 minute version, which seems to be the source for a lot of people referencing it in passing. Does anybody have any details about this? I can understand that they forced him to shorten it to try and make it more commercial, but his "director's cut" is still under two hours, I have a hard time believing the studio would have any reason to add in 20 more minutes. Is this just people adding the deleted scenes from the DVD into the cut or was there actually a 140 minute version released somewhere?
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I’ve done searches on the 140 minute version in the past, and have never been able to find out what it supposedly entailed. The Deleted Scenes bring it closer to that, but not that full length. The other shorter cuts have their differences documented. I wonder if that was a workprint running time.
Blatty futzed around with it a lot over the years. Shout’s release seems to be the same 118 minute “final Blatty-approved” version we got on past DVD and Blu Ray releases.