# Films that that had added footage AFTER completion **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [August 23, 2023, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-that-had-added-footage-after-completion/988973 "2023-08-23T13:23:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-that-had-added-footage-after-completion/988973/1 "2023-08-23T13:23:07Z")
I’m not talking about things like George Lucas’ “special editions” of the _Star Wars_ films, or the “Extended Editions” and “Director’s Cuts” of movies. Or the way Disney re-released _The Lion King_ with added animated fotoage of “Morning Report” after that song showed up in the stage musical. There’s plenty of that sort of thing these days. No, I’m talking about something that generally happens with old films, and usually pretty bad ones. Where the running length is just a little too short, and they want it to run as a major feature. Or they need to lengthen the film for the 90 minute TV market. The “new” footage is often made by other people, and doesn’t match the original **Madmen of Mandoras/The Saved Hitler’s Brain** – a 1963 film that ran just a little too short, about a bunch of Nazis who saved der Fuhrer’s Face . Pretty good acting and sets (although their swastikas didn’t look right). But it was too short, so someone else several years later shot a lot of padding to bring it to 90 minutes. And gave it the catchier title. I grew up reading about this in the monster movie magazines, but I didn’t see the film until a few years ago. Pretty awful > **[They Saved Hitler’s Brain vs The Madmen of Mandoras](https://psychotronicreview.com/films/they-saved-hitlers-brain/)** > > A Good Film Made BadA good title is better than a good movie -- at least from a financial standpoint. I tend to think that The Texas Chain Saw Massacre wouldn't have been nearly as successful **Sam’s Song /The Swap** – or _How to repurpose your Robert deNiro footage into another movie_. I haven’t seen this one. **Dark Star** – This was a student film by John Carpenter, Dan O’Bannon, and others as a 45 minute long student film. Producer Jack Harris agreed to distribute the film if they’d cut out the boring parts and shoot new footage to bring it up to a decent length. The scenes with O’Bannon dealing with the alien “beachball” were apparently all added at this point. (Interestingly, the depiction of a "monster loose on a space ship: was the whole point of O’Bannon’s later movie _Alien_, although here it was all played for laughs.). A weirdly inconsistent but fascinating cult film. At least in this case it was the original actors and creators involved, so the new scenes don’t clash with the old ones. > **[Dark Star (film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Star_(film))** > > Dark Star is a 1974 American science fiction comedy film directed and produced by John Carpenter and co-written with Dan O'Bannon. It follows the crew of the deteriorating starship Dark Star, twenty years into their mission to destroy unstable planets that might threaten future colonization of other planets. > Beginning as a University of Southern California student film produced from 1970 to 1972, it was gradually expanded to feature-length until it appeared at Filmex in 1974, and subsequently ... > **[Anniversary Post: The Swap](https://psychotronicreview.com/2020/05/07/the-swap/)** > > On this day in 1979. It was made with scenes from the 1969 art film Sam's Song, which featured Robert De Niro. It's a bizarre bit of exploitation filmmaking! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-that-had-added-footage-after-completion/988973/2 "2023-08-23T13:32:32Z")
**The Alien Factor** – low budget 1978 film starring nobody you’ve ever heard of. They had to add extra footage to this to pad out the time. Notable because stop-motion animator Ernie Farino (he animated the endoskeleton in the first _Terrminator_ movie, among other things) had to add animated things into the film AFTER the original footage had been shot (and with no thought off adding special effects afterwards). A real challenge. > **[The Alien Factor (1978) ⭐ 3.9 | Horror, Sci-Fi](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075656/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_28_vsl)** > > 1h 20m | G ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-that-had-added-footage-after-completion/988973/3 "2023-08-23T19:22:16Z")
Is “on the last day of shooting, in a panic” close enough to qualify? > **[The Runaway Bus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Runaway_Bus)** > > The Runaway Bus is a 1954 British comedy film produced, written and directed by Val Guest. It stars Frankie Howerd, Margaret Rutherford and Petula Clark and an ensemble cast of character actors in a story about a bus caught in fog while a gang of crooks tries to carry off a heist. The film was shot at Southall Studios in London with sets designed by the art director Wilfred Arnold. It was the film debut of Belinda Lee. The film is referenced in an episode of Frankie Howerd's 1970s radio series... > On the last day of filming, Guest realised that the movie was coming in at 72 minutes, three minutes short to qualify as a feature, so Howerd improvised a scene in a phone box. Those were the days, eh? j ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-that-had-added-footage-after-completion/988973/4 "2023-08-23T19:43:44Z")
[Best Defense](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Defense). A Dudley Moore starring film about a man designing parts for a new type of military tank. It bombed. So they added scenes with Eddie Murphy as a tank commander trying the new tank in its first combat mission. The Eddie Murphy scenes were arguably the best part. Still not enough to save the film, though. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-that-had-added-footage-after-completion/988973/5 "2023-08-24T03:46:35Z")
They filmed extra scenes with Raymond Burr for the American release of _Godzilla._ Not a movie, but the _ST:TNG_ episode “Future Imperfect” was running short, so they hurriedly wrote and filmed an extra scene with Cmdr. Riker and his son. Turned out to be a great scene, which gave the episode some further emotional resonance. ---
**Author:** ![Pavelb1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Pavelb1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pavelb1)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-that-had-added-footage-after-completion/988973/6 "2023-08-24T04:31:57Z")
Theres THIS mess. > **[Lucifer's Women](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer%27s_Women)** > > Lucifer's Women is a 1974 American exploitation horror film directed by Paul Aratow and starring Larry Hankin, Jane Brunel-Cohen, Norman Pierce, and Paul Thomas. Its plot follows John Wainright, an acclaimed writer-turned-illusionist who, after researching the occult, comes to find he is a reincarnation of Svengali; he subsequently comes to assist his publisher, Stephen, in courting Trilby, a naive nightclub dancer, to become a human sacrifice in Stephen's Satanic cult. > Loosely based on the 1894... ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-that-had-added-footage-after-completion/988973/7 "2023-08-24T04:42:56Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > The scenes with O’Bannon dealing with the alien “beachball” were apparently all added at this point. Well, it was time for Sgt. Pinback to feed the alien. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-that-had-added-footage-after-completion/988973/8 "2023-08-24T05:36:25Z")
I don’t know if you are only looking for bad films, but _Duel_ was originally was originally made as a TV movie, but it proved so popular extra scenes were added and it was given a theatrical release. IIRC, they were the school bus scene and the railroad crossing scene. If you look closely, you can tell it’s a different truck in those scenes. > **[Duel (1971 film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duel_(1971_film))** > > Duel is a 1971 American action-thriller television film directed by Steven Spielberg. It centers on a business commuter, played by Dennis Weaver, driving his car through California to meet a client. However, he finds himself chased and terrorized by the mostly unseen driver of a semi-truck. The screenplay by Richard Matheson adapts his own short story of the same name, published in the April 1971 issue of Playboy, and based on a November 22, 1963 encounter, when a trucker dangerously cut Produc... ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-that-had-added-footage-after-completion/988973/9 "2023-08-24T07:16:40Z")
Roger Corman loved to take finished films from Directors working under him and add gratuitous sex and gore he shot himself to make the films “more marketable”, often without the original Director knowing. **Humanoids from the Deep** was one such film that Corman later added in a bunch of extremely gratuitous rape scenes of fishmen raping human women much to the original casts disgust. Similarly the Italian film _Island of the Fishmen_ with Barbara Bach for international release was given a completely new 10 minute opening with Cameron Mitchell that was entirely an excuse to add in a bunch of gore at the start to keep audiences interested. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-that-had-added-footage-after-completion/988973/10 "2023-08-24T12:11:38Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > They filmed extra scenes with Raymond Burr for the American release of _Godzilla._ Yes. Even as a kid I noticed that in the scenes where Burr’s “Steve Martin” interacted with the major actors from the original film, they always had their backs to the camera, so you couldn’t se their faces. They reportedly wanted to take this same route with the second Godzilla movie, shooting extra scenes with “western” actors, but they ultimately decided that it was too much work, and simply released it dubbed as _Gigantis the Fire Monster_. When they released Toho’s third _kaiju_ movie, **Rodan** , they tacked on an opening segment using footage of atomic bomb tests to suggest that atomic testing was somehow responsible for Rodan’s re-awakening, something missing from the Japanese version. They also recut the film, took out one scene, and added a long soliloquoy about an honorable death over the death scene of the Rodans. In the original Jap[anese version, there’s no such voicde-over. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-that-had-added-footage-after-completion/988973/11 "2023-08-24T12:16:58Z")
[Close Encounters of the Third Kind.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_Encounters_of_the_Third_Kind#Reissues_and_home_media) Had extra footage shot, and re-released as the Special Edition. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-that-had-added-footage-after-completion/988973/12 "2023-08-24T13:10:18Z")
How about a short subject? Disney’s _Dad… Can I Borrow the Car?_ was padded to fill a 60-minute slot – over twice its original length – for their “Wonderful World of Disney”. Both versions are on YouTube. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-that-had-added-footage-after-completion/988973/13 "2023-08-24T13:15:14Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Had extra footage shot, and re-released as the Special Edition. According to Wikipedia, the extra footage was shot after the first cut was made, but before the film’s release. Spielberg did more editing for the 1980 Special Edition and his 1998 video “Director’s Cut”, but these didn’t require any extra shooting. I’d consider CE3K as the “modern films” exempted from this category, but I was vague about definitions, and the Special Edition came out well before Lucas’ Special Editions of the original Stsar Wars Trilogy that I used as examples. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-that-had-added-footage-after-completion/988973/14 "2023-08-24T13:18:54Z")
**Rocketship X-M** was a 1950 movie about a trip to the moon deliberately rushed into production to beat **Destination Moon** (based on a story by Robert Heinlein, and with good special effects and Chesley Bonestell paintings) to the theaters. As a result, they didn’t have time to add a lot of special effects, and had continuity errors > [@](#): > > In the 1970s the rights to _Rocketship X-M_ were acquired by [Kansas City](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas_City,_Missouri) film exhibitor, movie theater owner (and later video distributor) Wade Williams, who set about having some of _RX-M_ 's [special effects](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_effects) scenes reshot in order to improve the film’s overall continuity.[[3]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocketship_X-M#cite_note-Williams-3) The [VHS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHS) tape, [LaserDisc](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserDisc), and [DVD](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD) releases incorporate this re-shot footage. Williams funded the production of new footage to replace the stock V-2 shots and a few missing scenes. All new footage was produced for Wade Williams Productions by [Bob Burns III](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Burns_III), his wife Kathy Burns, former Disney designer/artist Tom Scherman, [Academy Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award) winner [Dennis Muren](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Muren), [Emmy Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Award) nominee [Michael Minor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Minor), and [Academy Award](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Award) winner Robert Skotak. Costumes were re-made that closely replicated those worn by the film’s explorers, and a new, screen accurate Rocketship X-M effects miniature was built.[[3]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocketship_X-M#cite_note-Williams-3) > > The new replacement shots consist of the RX-M flying through space; it landing tail first on the Red Planet; a different shot of the crew heading away from the RX-M to explore the stark Martian surface; the surviving explorers quickly returning to their nearby spaceship, and the RX-M later blasting off from Mars into space. These six replacement shots were filmed near [Los Angeles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles) in color, then converted to black-and-white and re-tinted where necessary to match the original film footage. (Unlike the DVD release, the earlier LaserdDisc of _Rocketship X-M_ contains extra bonus material documenting the making of the film and the creation of this new footage.) The film’s production and the making of these new scenes were also presented in _RX-M_ feature articles in both _[Starlog](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlog)_ magazine and later expanded in the first issue (1979) of _Starlog_ ‘s spin-off magazine _CineMagic_. Prints of the original theatrical release version of _RX-M_ are still stored in Williams’ Kansas City film vaults.[[3]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocketship_X-M#cite_note-Williams-3) They have not been converted to a home video format. > > Image’s 50th Anniversary DVD release (2000), under license from Williams, is oddly missing two of his re-filmed Mars scenes: Lippert’s original [matte painting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matte_painting) scene, which has tiny matted-in figures leaving an obviously painted RX-M, is retained instead of the Williams’ re-shot replacement scene that has the five explorers heading away from a convincing RX-M effects miniature standing on a barren Martian plain. A new bridging scene, set at the end of the Mars sequence, showing the surviving explorers hurriedly returning to the RX-M, is also missing from Image’s DVD. > **[Rocketship X-M](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocketship_X-M)** > > Rocketship X-M (a.k.a. Expedition Moon and originally Rocketship Expedition Moon) is a 1950 American black-and-white science fiction film from Lippert Pictures, the first outer space adventure of the post-World War II era. The film was produced and directed by Kurt Neumann and stars Lloyd Bridges, Osa Massen, John Emery, Noah Beery Jr., Hugh O'Brian, and Morris Ankrum. > Rocketship X-M tells the story of a Moon expedition gone awry. Through a series of unforeseen events, the expedition's crew find... ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-that-had-added-footage-after-completion/988973/15 "2023-08-24T13:22:29Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > According to Wikipedia, the extra footage was shot after the first cut was made, but before the film’s release. Spielberg did more editing for the 1980 Special Edition and his 1998 video “Director’s Cut”, but these didn’t require any extra shooting. That’s not how I read it. The scene inside the mothership at least was filmed after the initial release. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-that-had-added-footage-after-completion/988973/16 "2023-08-24T13:23:09Z")
The shot at the very end of **Batman Returns** of Catwoman rising up from out of frame to look up at the Bat-signal in the sky was added at the request of the studio to clarify that she had survived; it cost them an additional quarter million dollars. That’s not Michelle Pfeiffer in the costume. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-that-had-added-footage-after-completion/988973/17 "2023-08-24T13:26:18Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > hat’s not how I read it. The scene inside the mothership at least was filmed after the initial release. > [@](#): > > When Kahn and Spielberg completed the first cut of the film, Spielberg was dissatisfied because “there wasn’t enough wow-ness”.[[12]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_Encounters_of_the_Third_Kind#cite_note-making-12) [Pick-ups](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick-up_(filmmaking)) were commissioned but cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond could not participate due to other commitments.[[3]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_Encounters_of_the_Third_Kind#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcBride1997270%E2%80%93279-3) [John A. Alonzo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_A._Alonzo), [László Kovács](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Kov%C3%A1cs_(cinematographer)), and [Douglas Slocombe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Slocombe) worked on the pick-ups.[[3]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_Encounters_of_the_Third_Kind#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcBride1997270%E2%80%93279-3) Lacombe was originally intended to find [Flight 19](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_19) hidden in the [Amazon rainforest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_rainforest), but the idea was changed to the [Sonoran Desert](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoran_Desert). Spielberg also took 7.5 minutes out from the preview.[[16]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_Encounters_of_the_Third_Kind#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcBride1997280%E2%80%93289-16) Seems pretty clear to me that they shot the scenes before the initial release ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-that-had-added-footage-after-completion/988973/18 "2023-08-24T13:26:32Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > No, I’m talking about something that generally happens with old films, and usually pretty bad ones. Where the running length is just a little too short, and they want it to run as a major feature. Or they need to lengthen the film for the 90 minute TV market. The “new” footage is often made by other people, and doesn’t match the original How can this be economically viable? It seems to me that the effort and cost would be way more than any financial gain made. I noticed that some of the movies mentioned were ones I never even heard of, so the financial gain had to be minimal. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2023, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-that-had-added-footage-after-completion/988973/19 "2023-08-24T13:29:28Z")
I’m wrong evidently they got quite a bit of money to shoot scenes after the initial release > [@](#): > > After the movie’s huge success, Spielberg asked Columbia to allow him to re-cut the picture and to shoot additional sequences; the studio agreed at the condition that he included new scenes showing the inside of the alien mothership (to entice audiences into the theater again). Spielberg was given a budget of $1.5 million and seven weeks to shoot the new sequences (some of which were shot while he was also directing 1941 (1979)). He had to use a different director of photography (Allen Daviau) because Vilmos Zsigmond was unavailable, and he was able to convince most of the original cast to re-appear, with the exception of director Francois Truffaut (who played French scientist Lacombe) who was on location shooting a film at the time. For years, Steven Spielberg considered the Special Edition the only “real” version of the movie and dismissed the original as an inferior “work-in-progress”. According to Columbia, all prints of the original version have been destroyed (apart from a few copies kept in the studio’s vault for historical value only). Only the Special Edition had been the version available on video until Criterion became the first company to release different versions of the film in any video format. > **[Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) - Alternate versions - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075860/alternateversions/)** > > Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) - Movies, TV, Celebs, and more... ---
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> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Even as a kid I noticed that in the scenes where Burr’s “Steve Martin” interacted with the major actors from the original film, they always had their backs to the camera, so you couldn’t se their faces. Ha! Sounds like a scene from the mostly delightful romp “Bowfinger.” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/films-that-that-had-added-footage-after-completion/988973.md?page=2)