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**Chris** · 20-02-2025, 09:41

If your VHS copy plays back in 4:3 TV screen ratio rather than widescreen (black bars at top and bottom) then your VHS tape was manufactured from a TV broadcast cut of the film rather than the original theatrical release. I’ve not delved into it so I can’t say for certain, but TV cuts of feature films often have scenes curtailed or dialogue over-dubbed to allow for the less permissive environment of broadcast TV.

I don’t know whether American cinemas show the age rating at the end as well as the beginning. They certainly don’t here in the UK.

I’m glad you enjoyed it, it is a great film - but as I said, if you really want to experience these things as originally made, then find an enthusiast screening in a cinema, or if you can’t, then get the blu ray and watch it on the biggest TV screen you can get hold of!

20-02-2025, 09:41	#17
Chris Trollsplatter Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,247	Re: The Poseidon Adventure - 1972 If your VHS copy plays back in 4:3 TV screen ratio rather than widescreen (black bars at top and bottom) then your VHS tape was manufactured from a TV broadcast cut of the film rather than the original theatrical release. I’ve not delved into it so I can’t say for certain, but TV cuts of feature films often have scenes curtailed or dialogue over-dubbed to allow for the less permissive environment of broadcast TV. I don’t know whether American cinemas show the age rating at the end as well as the beginning. They certainly don’t here in the UK. I’m glad you enjoyed it, it is a great film - but as I said, if you really want to experience these things as originally made, then find an enthusiast screening in a cinema, or if you can’t, then get the blu ray and watch it on the biggest TV screen you can get hold of!