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The Executioner's Song (Director's Cut)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
EAN: 0097368522640
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Paramount
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Manufacturer: Paramount
MPN: 852264
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 05, 2008
Running Time: 135 minutes
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: November 28, 1982
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Editorial Review:
Based on the true story of murderer Gary Mark Gilmore spanning the last nine months of his life (May 1976-January 1977) in which at age 35 after being released for serving a long prison term in Utah for armed robbery the unstable Gilmore murdered two men in two seperate and senseless robberies in which after a brief public trial in October he was sentenced to death by firing squad which drew a lot of media attention when Gilmore insisted that his execution be carried out and he became the first man to be executed in the USA since the government reinstated the death penalty in 1976.System Requirements:Running Time: 135 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 097368522640 Manufacturer No: 852264
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Excellant movie
What can you say about Tommy Lee Jones and Rosanna Arquette.
THey are always great.
Rating:  - I Want My Two Hours Back
I want my two hours back, the two hours of my life I wasted watching this abomination of a recut classic. How a director could savage and homogenize his greatest accomplishment is totally beyond me.
Put simply, the original was white hot in it's display of the sexual magnetism between the two exceedingly pitiful main characters - hot enough to be the work Tommy Lee Jones and Roseanne Arquette's future performances would forever be judged against.
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Rating: - Censorship makes this a totally different movie. Too bad
The original move was uncensored but I hardly recognized this mess as the same movie I enjoyed so many years ago. I made the mistake of thinking "Director's Cut" meant it was the original film. Boy was I wrong!
The only reason to purchase this chopped to pieces version is to use it as an example of our purtain, censorious moral beliefs in a society that rates violent movies as G or PG and lovemaking or nudity as R or X.
What a perfect example of our upside-down beliefs.
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Rating: - the executioner's song
this dvd has been edited. if there were less, if would have given it. no stars
Rating: - What happened to the rest of the movie?
If I knew that half of the movie was edited out I wouldn't have bought it.
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