Mr Martin

Can someone please explain why the running time for the film "Tread Softly Stranger" appears to be longer on the 1994 video version submitted to the BBFC (91m 8s) than the original film version of 1958 (90m 0s). This is rather confusing when there were cuts made to the film version in 1958, but the 1994 video does not have any cuts made. I thought when films were transferred to video they had a shorter running time, not longer.

Perhaps the 1994 version was restored to its correct length - if that was the case then the new DVD release appears to have been cut by several minutes. Maybe I have missed something here ?

I don't know where Odeon got their copy from for the DVD, but this is supposed to be issued with no cuts and a running time of 87m 38s. All these timings are indicated on the BBFC website.

Even if the film is not quite complete, it is still a very entertaining film and very worthwhile to have it available on DVD. Another excellent release from Odeon.




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