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Steve McQueen's Cincinnati Kid lost its director over on-set footage

Producer Martin Ransohoff replaced Sam Peckinpah with Norman Jewison, who restarted production on The Cincinnati Kid in 1965; the footage was reportedly for the director's own cut.

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  1. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorA director on a Steve McQueen movie got fired after studio executives asked about some extra footage and he said, quote, it's for my own version.

  2. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThat's The Cincinnati Kid, from nineteen sixty-five, and the director was Sam Peckinpah.

  3. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorProducer Martin Ransohoff replaced him with Norman Jewison, who restarted production, according to Yahoo Entertainment.

  4. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSpiritually Florida. A man tells the studio it's for his own version. That's every Florida statement I've ever heard.

  5. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI bet it's set in New Orleans, Chip. And he was shooting a second movie on the studio's budget.

  6. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorNew Orleans is just Florida with better lunch.

  7. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorPeckinpah went on to make The Wild Bunch in nineteen sixty-nine. I'd call it a successful private screening. Florida Man Rating, three alligators.

  8. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorMy own version has Cincinnati on the Gulf Coast, and I'm not showing it to anyone.

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