Tuesday 6 January 2009

The Shining - Deleted Scenes

From www.imbd.com
  • ABC edited 4 minutes from this film for its 1983 network television premiere.

  • Stanley Kubrick shot the Jack's typewriter pages in different languages for release in different countries. Such localized versions were released internationally in theaters, on video and on TV. The DVD releases of 2001 and 2007, however, only feature the English version of the text.

  • Reportedly, Halloran's death scene as filmed is not the one we actually see. The one filmed depicts a much longer, much more graphic death. In its entirety, the scene lasts almost seventy seconds, and is full of gore. Rather then just run up and hit him as seen in the released version, Jack instead runs up, hits him in the back of the head. Halloran screams. Jack pulls the ax back, and then slams the spike on the back of the ax into the base of Halloran's spine. Halloran screams and recoils, and then Jack slams the ax into his back and he falls down. Halloran rolls onto his back and is looking up, and Jack starts to beat him with the ax before he "hears" something and leaves (Halloran rolling onto his back before Jack beat him is why in the uncut version we see Halloran on his back with blood when Wendy finds him, rather then on his face like we see him fall).

  • "The Making of the Shining" depicts an item not seen anywhere in the film: A woman's bloody, scarred, severed head. This may be from a scene never shot, or a scene that was in fact shot and never released.

  • In all previous video versions of The Shining, (prior to the 2001 video re-release of this title), each title card failed to change in synchronization with the music. For the film's 2001 video re-release each title card does in fact change in sync with the music.

  • Director Stanley Kubrick edited the ending on the third day after release, removing about 10 minutes at the end: starting after the closeup of 'frozen Jack in daylight' it goes to a pullback shot with part of a state troopers car and the legs of troopers walking around in the foreground with Jack in the background, then cuts to the hotel manager (Barry Nelson) Stuart Ullman walking down a hospital hallway to the nurse's station to inquire about Danny and Wendy, he's told they're both doing well and proceeds to Wendy's (Shelley Duvall) room, where after some gentle conversation he tells Wendy that searchers have been unable to locate any evidence of the apparitions she saw. Then it cuts to the camera silently roaming the halls of the Overlook hotel for about a minute until it comes up to the wall with the photographs, where it [back to the ending as it is now known] finally closes in on the photo of Jack in the 1921 picture



  • The full-length version runs approx. 145 minutes and is the U.S. theatrical version, available in the USA on VHS, DVD and laserdisc. All the other versions, however, run just under two hours (115), omitting about half an hour of footage. This is because Kubrick cut some scenes from his film, which he thought were unnecessary. British television network ITV screened the full US version of The Shining during the late eighties, as did More4 more recently in July 2008. The following is a list of all the scenes or parts of scenes not present in the other versions of The Shining.
    • The last line of dialogue (spoken by Wendy) in the kitchen scene, the subsequent dissolve, Bill Watson's arrival to the interview (and all his dialogue), Jack recounting his previous jobs and the reason for shutting the Overlook in winter.
    • After Danny's vision in the bathroom, the entire Doctor scene is removed (making Anne Jackson's name in the opening credits a mystery), where Danny discusses "Tony" and we discover Jack dislocated Danny's shoulder in a moment of drunken rage, and joined the wagon afterwards.
    • The scenes where Mr. Ullman shows Jack and Wendy around the Colorado Lounge, when they walk outside the maze and when Dick Halloran shows Wendy and Danny round the kitchens have been shortened, but not removed completely.
    • The scene where Jack, Wendy and the hotel managers first enter the Gold Room and are introduced to Dick Halloran, the subsequent dissolve, a line of dialogue between Halloran and Wendy about the woman's name.
    • The first shot of Wendy wheeling the breakfast trolley.
    • The second half of Wendy and Jack's breakfast conversation where Jack says how he feels he's been to the Overlook before.
    • A shot from behind of Jack throwing the ball against the wall, the subsequent dissolve and the line "Loser has to keep America clean, how's that?" (8 seconds in all!)
    • Wendy seeing the news and weather report on television in the kitchen while preparing food.
    • The title card "Thursday" and part of Wendy and Danny's snowfight.
    • Wendy and Danny watching television in the Colorado Lounge.
    • Some lines of dialogue between Jack and Lloyd during their first encounter.
    • A line of dialogue spoken by Jack after the encounter with the old woman, referring to Danny's vision of the blood.
    • The scene where Wendy goes over her plan to leave the Overlook verbally in their room and Danny gets possessed (?) by "Tony", sitting bolt upright in bed.
    • Halloran's third attempt at trying to contact them via the telephone and County Office.
    • The 8am title card.
    • Halloran's question to the stewardess on the plane.
    • A long shot from behind of Jack at the typewriter.
    • Halloran's plane touching down and phoning his friend Larry to arrange the rental of a Sno-cat.
    • The scene where Danny watches Roadrunner (not actually on screen) and Wendy goes to find Jack, taking a baseball bat, just before she goes to find his manuscript.
    • Wendy seeing skeletons in the hotel lobby.


  • According to someone, there were some prints of the film containing a longer sequence in which Halloran is killed, but in fact the only version of this scene still exisitng is the one contained in the Usa/Canada version, and in the 115 version.

More Info on the hospital Scene here...

17 comments:

  1. I've got the old video version with the skeletons in the lobby that Wendy comes across. Not sure if this was the cinema release or what, but it's not on the DVD I have. I must admit I thought it was kinda tacky at the time and over-done but would like to see it again for old times sake.

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  2. The version with Skeletons is the US version. The UK version is shorter. Both are approved by Kubrick.

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  3. I have the old version of video with the skeletons in the hall that will meet Wendy. Not sure if it was going to the movies or what, but it's not on the DVD, I have. I must admit I thought it was a bit tacky at the time and over-done, but I'd love to see him again for old times.
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