TCM's showing of THE CYCLOPS is the edited version

[William735]

Was watching the TCM telecast of the 1957 movie THE CYCLOPS and for a cable network that says all its movies are uncut and commercial free...well commercial free yes,but not uncut or unedited. A few seconds of THE CYCLOPS are missing in TCM's version of the film. The scene when the torch is thrown into the Cyclops one eye and the killing of Lon Chaney Jr's character are not shown.

 

BTW: when WB put the On Demand DVD of THE CYCLOPS for sale, the first version they released was the same edited version TCM shows. But people who had seen the movie in theaters and on TV Creature Feature shows contacted WB and asked them to release the uncut version and if they could exchange the edited version for the complete version and WB did so.

 

TCM needs to get ahold of the uncut version of THE CYCLOPS and show that the next time they schedule it.

[ValentineXavier]

There is a thread about this in the General Discussions forum:

 

http://forums.tcm.com/thread.jspa?threadID=168596&tstart=50