Sahav

My wife and I went to see this film when it was released and there is one question I have never found an answer to since. When the film hit VHS, there was a missing scene. Bruce and Linda at the posh swank uptown restaurant trying to get a seat. The manager was a snob asking the Lee's to wait at the bar. After a long wait and several other "non" Asian patrons were served and they were still waiting and being pushed off by the manager, Bruce ordered a glass of juice from the bar. Bruce makes it seem he is clumsy and spills the juice all over the book. He apologizes making comment on how important the book (which can no longer be read because of the juice) is to keeping track of their important customers and then proceeds to tell Linda they'd go to a "good" restaurant. I absolutely loved that scene. I have never seen it since. Every one I have spoken to doesn't recall the scene! Why has this scene of all scenes been made missing? I have my suspicions as to why and that shows you just how far we have come (or not).

I recently was able to view this film thanks to the Sleuth Channel. Having been a long time Leonard Nimoy fan I have had this on my "to watch" list for years...more like decades. I can only hope the increase in cable options bring us more choices like this. Not only do we see Nimoy in his post Star Trek/Mission Impossible years, but Larry Hagman as well. This film may be short in it's running time but is packed with plot and story. I for one found it refreshing from the torrent of angst driven character centered media that seems to pervade everything and everywhere. There was more than one made for TV movies that Nimoy and Hagman made during the seventies that were gems on their own. There was another film with Hagman as a motorcycle policeman who loved reading and on lunch break his motorcycle falls over on him causing him to believe he is Sherlock Holmes. This film is on the same par. As was Nimoy in "The Missing Are Deadly". Lots of rare unearthed gems out there.