Talk:The Nun's Story (film)

DVD Release

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• As of November 2005, The Nun's Story remains the only major (i.e. successful) film starring Audrey Hepburn that has yet to be released on DVD.

This can't be true: I own such a DVD. The IMDB discussion page also mentions a Korean release of The Nun's Story on DVD. OneNamelessCat 17:54, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

• • That's most likely a bootleg. The rights holders of the film have yet to officially release Nun's Story on DVD. 23skidoo 18:42, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
    • What's your source for saying that? The DVD is available at www.whv.co.kr (Warner Home Video Korea). If you click on "Library," it's fourth in the right column. Here's a direct link to image [1] (I can't figure out a direct link to the title description). I would think it highly unlikely that Warner Home Video sells bootleg DVDs. OneNamelessCat 01:11, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
      • Many DVDs coming out of Asia are bootlegs under North American copyright laws (that's a common fact) -- for example Phantom Menace was available on DVD and VCD from Hong Kong for months before it was officially released. If Warner has put it out then it must only be a Region 2 release. There is no Region 1 release at the present time, and since Region 1 (i.e. United States) was the originating country for the movie, there therefore is no official release of the film on DVD in its originating country. I sincerely hope that changes soon because I consider it to be the best Hepburn film. 23skidoo 02:07, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
        • According to an IMDB poster who claims to have the DVD from Warner, it's Region 1,2,3,4. In any case, AFAIK, it's true that the film hasn't been released on DVD in its originating country, but the current article text doesn't make that qualification. OneNamelessCat 02:41, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Just FYI, a North American DVD release of the film has now been announced for April 4, 2006. It's listed, complete with cover art, at Amazon already. 23skidoo 05:11, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 14:17, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Missing footage from DVD 2006 release?

I first saw the film on TV when I was in high school in the late 1960's. I could swear there is some footage missing from the DVD version released in 2006.

One scene I seem to remember involves the Nazi occupation of Belgium. Sister Luke begins to help one of the nurses who is working underground in the Resistance, against the Nazis. The nurse's boyfriend needs to be hidden from the Nazis until they can sneak him out of Belgium. Sister Luke puts him in a hospital room that is supposedly being disinfected after a patient with tuberculosis had occupied the room. The door is sealed up with tape and adhesive, and a machine is hooked up outside the door to fumigate the room with disinfectant vapor -- it is hooked up through a hose that goes through a hole in the door. Sister Luke fills the machine with plain water instead of disinfectant solution -- the plain water vapor will not harm the man hiding inside. The Nazi troops come in to inspect the hospital. A German officer demands to see what is in the sealed room. Sister Luke explains that the room is being disinfected following the death of a tuberculosis patient in the room. The Nazi officer immediately decides he doesn't want to see inside the room after all, and congratulates Sister Luke on the hospital's efficient use of modern medical techniques to prevent the spread of disease. I'm certain that scene was in the movie the first time around and was probably cut as part of fitting the film into a TV time slot. Unfortunately, it appears to be gone permanently.Toddabearsf (talk) 23:03, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

I've seen the movie many times, including theatrically, and recall no such scene. Might you recall this from the book? Rozsaphile1 (talk) 15:06, 6 March 2024 (UTC)