Superman (The ABC Extended Cut)

http://superman.markshields.com/

Here’s a very cool site with actual video clips of deleted scenes of the original Superman the Movie. They’re from the hard to get Extended ABC Cut of the Superman Movie. There were a lot of subplots restored for the ABC cut.

Ned Beatty scenes were severely cut from the film.

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I do want to make a correction to what the writer of the site I’m linking to wrote.

((I give you Gene Hackman, Ned Beatty and Valerie Perrine in the last installment of my ''Diversionary Tactics'' deleted scenes series. My personal belief about why this scene was cut? Larry Hagman's sudden unexplained absence, for one thing. Another? The filmmakers never bother to show the CORRECT SEQUENCE when Valerie Perrine is ''correcting'' what Ned Beatty messed up in an earlier scene (because his ''arm wasn't long enough''). She closes the panel and all the numbers are completely wrong. Duh. Dropped scene. Enjoy this one. Now I'm off to walk my dog and then hit the gym to do abs and cardio.))

This is actually partially correct, but look at the uniforms, they’re not army, but navy. This is not Valerie correcting Otis’s mistake, but her reprogramming the other missile that the Navy owns, not the Army one. This is the reason why Larry Hagman is not in the scene (He’s army.).

I bet Donner thought the second reprogram scene was repetitive, so he cut it from the theater and DVD versions.