Directors Cuts of Iconic Films That Surpass The Originals

The Big Red One

This film is a semi-autobiographical depiction of Samuel Fuller's service during WWII. Fuller's original cut was 113 minutes long and didn't play into the emotion that was felt during the war. The 160-minute cut premiered at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and garnered a completely different reaction from viewers. They were obsessed, moved, and saw it as revolutionary. Sadly, Fuller had passed away long before his final cut of the film was ever released. 

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The More You Know

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  • Peter O’Toole was nominated for eight performance Oscars and didn’t win a single one.
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  • Jackie Chan voiced the Beast in the Chinese dub of The Beauty And The Beast.
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