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Old 12th April 2012, 08:46 AM
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All US releases are the 140+ minute version. Everywhere else has the 120 minute version. If its a US disc it's the longer one.

Kubrick himself cut the film to make it more punchy after the film had debuted in the US. In fact, the original US premiere print ran even longer and had a different coda in which hotel manager Ulmann visits Wendy and Danny in hospital but this has never been seen since and is thought to have been destroyed by Kubrick's longtime assistant Leon Vitali upon the director's request, along with outtakes from many other films. Some Polaroids taken from the scene can seen in the colossal Kubrick Archives book from
Teschen.

Bizarrely Warner has never issued the 140+ print outside of the US as per Kubrick's wishes, allegedly. Given the rereleases on DVD and the Blu-ray version have sll been the shorter cut, it's very unlikely it ever will now.

I own both cuts on Blu-ray. The Shining remains my all-time favourite film.
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