On Apr 29, 2:21 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
They didn't have to bring out new revisions of the movie
Casablanca every few years either--it's fine just the way
it is! ;-)
Well, they gave us two "revisions" of this movie in Germany.
The first - shown 1952 - was heavily cut and the plot modified
from a somewhat propagandistic WW2 romance to a ludicrous
pulp adventure revolving around Delta-rays. I don't know the
reasoning behind that but I guess that it was to prevent new
sympathies for the Nazis (even though Maj. Strasser gets
shot in the end, war-time Germany isn't shown as a real loser
in the original version).
In 1975 the movie was restored by the biggest German TV
network and it is pretty faithful to the original, though some of
the atmosphere is lost because of the (well-done) dubbing.
This "revision" is the one known and loved today (the movie has
as many fans in Germany as in the US). It's probably - together
with High Noon - the most rerun movie in German television.
Just thought, I'd share.