Database Correction Page

Record number: 2216

Title: Power, The (1968)
Medium: Movie
Actress: Suzanne Pleshette

Description: In a nice scene, that usually winds up edited out when put on TV, Margery Lanzing (Pleshette) gets kidnapped by the bad guys, in ye olde "bait-for-the-good-guy" plot. She's tightly bound by the heavy (Nehemiah Persoff) and gagged over the hair with a han(d)kerchief folded in a triangle. After the hero, George Hamilton wins the fight with the villian and forces him to untie the damsel, she remarks, "You certainly did a good job of tieing me up!"...

...and so on, and so forth, I thought it only appropriate to bring up the issue over here, as part of our never-ending battle for truth, justice, and the elimination of scene creep.

I watched the movie on TCM this morning, and I've got to tell you, that if this scene was excised from the version they showed, whoever did it should have at least been nominated for the best editing Oscar that year. On the other hand, that is a pretty detailed description over there-not often the kind spawned of faulty memories.

Does someone-anyone-have an actual tape of this scene? From the IMDb it appears the film has either never been released to video or, if it has been,is currently out of print. Would whomever wrote the above entry kindly step forward and fill us in on where and when you saw the film with this scene in it? It's not that we don't believe you-after all, Pleshette indeed does utter the line quoted above after the fight scene, which tends to favor the cutting-room-floor theory. It's just that if this is a scene that only those lucky enough to have caught the film during its theatrical or video release had a chance at, the database entry should reflect that, so the question of its authenticity doesn't come up again.

Besides, you never know. George Hamilton could become a hot commodity again, and he, Pleshette, and baddie Nehemiah Persoff (who's still alive, by the way; don't know why I thought he wasn't) could regale us with DVD-commentary-track tales of what it was like to shoot the scene, something along the lines of what Gershon, Tilly & Co. did with Bound.