Are you saying that you have (or your friend has) a copy of THE "Lost Cut" that was edited by John Jympson before he was fired and replaced by Richard Chew and Paul Hirsch?? I have heard rumors of Lost Cut bootlegs but I never believed them. Or is this a fan edit meant to replicate the Lost Cut? I wonder if this is actually Deleted Magic... or a joke.

The Lost Cut? I seem to remember hearing about that before. I assumed it wasn't, mostly because I thought the title was for a reason and it wasn't readily available.

Hmmm...Any WWII aerial combat footage standing in for unfinished FX shots in this thing?

I have no idea. I'll have to ask him.

I've never actually seen this disk. Once I get my burner running, I could ask him to borrow it and then burn a copy and send it to you to identify it. The only problem being that the disc is probably dual-layer and I only have a single layer burner. Maybe I could put it on two discs in different parts.

That would be the holy grail of holy grails. My God, I don't care what the quality is, and while we've seen some the footage...the entire lost cut...uh yeah, anyone here on this forum would give their first born to see that.

Wow- had no idea it was this rare. If it's what you think it is, which I don't know. It did seem weird that the editor would degrade the picture and the effects for a new edit- maybe it was an attempt to make it look old-fashioned.

But I repeat- I haven't seen this. I don't want to get your hopes up if it turns out to be fake.