I was just thinking about the first time I saw it, one afternoon when I had the flu as a kid and my mom had brought the TV into my room.

That could be a heck of a film to watch with a fever.

It must have been edited to hell and full of commercials!

Is that an experience people even have anymore—seeing the full version of a movie that they originally encountered cut for commercials? It certainly shaped my experience of childhood and even adolescent movies on TV! (After that I stopped having a television.)