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The Harrad Experiment [VHS]

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As the author of the novel I wasn't consulted when I finally saw the film. Alas, it leaves off on the story about half way through--with lots of scenes and dialogue I never wrote--and the film never explores the group marriage of Insix--too hot a subject for the1970's when it was made--AND NOW!There is no Harrad yet--and the Harrad Idea is not outdated. But the movie is fun to watch--and the swimming pool scene a delight with Don Johnson and Laurie Walters--young, and prettily naked. When the movie is run on network tv--the frontal nudity of both Laurie and Don is eliminated- proving that even in the 1990's the continuing sex revolution is not over. If the current owner of the video rights would contact me, I'd be happy to put a few pool scenes on my website Anyway--if you are a film maker the time has come for a sequel. Bob Rimmer

I remember this film as being a visual treat and especially sensual. I also remember a lot of FULL nudity...NONE of which survived the transfer to DVD. It is significantly shorter than the original release. Don't waste your time or money on this 'butcher" job.

When I buy a movie, I expect to get the entire movie, just as I expect to get a full gallon of milk rather than just 3 quarts. If I weren't willing to see the nudity, I wouldn't buy the title.

Some of the deletions removed not only the nudity, but also important dialogue that occurred at the same time, so several scenes make no sense at all (even less than in the original, which wasn't quite Shakespeare to start).

I didn't even finish watching this version, but recently I found a bargain-bin DVD entitled "Classic 70s Movies" which included an uncut version of this film - nothing missing that I noticed! That's the one that's in my DVD library now. Don't waste your money on this atrocity.

I was looking for the real R rated version ..but the one i've got was the PG13 Version..that made me mad..cause all those R rated scenes were not in that movie and they have also cut it into a 50 minutes version or something..that was too bad...

I bought this a few years ago because I wanted to see two of the three movies(Born to Lose, and The Harrad Experiment)and I though that with Sissy Spacek, how bad of a movie could Katherine be ?

Well, Robert Deniro stars in Born To Lose(for about five minutes playing cop number two).

If you like George Seagal, then this is a decent movie-Segal give a good performance as a down on his luck drug addict who's caught betweeen the cops and the dealer that he ripped off.

Katherine seems to be a kind of retelling of the Patty Hearst kidnapping saga(sort of).(Henry Winkler(in a really early roll) and Art Carney(I guess the rent was due)also star-To be honest I was bored after 10 minutes and went ahead to --

The Harrad Experiment--Don Johnson stars as a student in the first Co-ed dorm at Harrad College-again to be honest although I like this movie,the print was so bad(jumps,fading colors) that I couldn't really enjoy the movie.(Tippi Hedren and James Whitmore also star).

So there you have it ,three movies with one decent print(Born to Lose).Buy at your own risk.

The Platinum disc corporation release of The Harrad Experiment is a heavily edited version for TV. Naughty words are bleeped out, and all scenes involving nudity have been deleted. The catalog listing for this DVD should reflect that this is NOT the R-rated theatrical release of 1973.

I saw the movie, The Harrad Experiment, a few years back on video, and I thought it was an interesting look on the relationship between men and women, controversial for its time and loaded with corny dialogue and bad acting. I saw the DVD at a music store for 6 bucks and decided to buy it, not knowing that it was heavily cut and censored.

The actual film contains a fair amount of nudity, none of which is found in the DVD. The scenes are either chopped out, or "cleverly" avoided. There is even a scene where several people skinny-dip in the school pool, and it is obvious that there are little black bares covering their "genital areas".

I am one of those people who are strongly against censorship, when I saw the film "Eyes Wide Shut" in theatres, I did not know about the digital censoring that occured for the U.S. release, or I would not have even bothered to see it. It's not to say that the nudity in either film progesses the plot any further, but it was not, however, the original vision of the director, something I think should be put into perspective when releasing any film.

Please do not buy this DVD, even if it is very inexpensive.

The tape being offered is not the original R rated version, but the one shown on regular television. All nudity and swear words are removed, making this film into a PG movie. As far as I know the uncut version is not being sold anywhere.

First, I must say - I would have liked to have been able to give this a zero star rating.

Second, this will teach me to read more of the reviews and to read them much more closely.

Third, I should have watched this DVD when it arrived, rather just doing a cursory check of the quality of the DVD: For if I had I too would have returned it for a refund.

This is to nothing more than a "G rated" (US television) release, replete with cut scenes and 'bleeped' speech. It is most definitely not the "R rated" version I was anticipating. European and Australian free to air networks would never, never mangle to such a degree a movie that was coming from such an innocuous base both in terms of language and nudity.

I can only surmise that from the time I placed my order in February 2004 til it shipped in August 2004 (a good reason not to combine orders to save on shipping costs) that an error was made as to which version I had ordered. Unfortunately, Amazon's returns policy doesn't seem to cover this type of problem - especially given the time that had expired between the DVD's arrival and my watching of it.

I purchased a DVD player today.. I was cruising around and spotted "The Harrad Experiment" on DVD.. Sorry to say this is the first DVD I've ever purchased! I had read the book but was too young to see the movie when it came out in'73. I thought this would be alot of fun to watch.. But they've managed to hack this DVD to bits. Without seeing original, I could tell whole scenes were cut; language was censored... I don't understand why the DVD was even issued in this manner.. This is TERRIBLE!! The DVD jacket should say "censored!!! What a rip! If you can somehow find the original it might be alot of fun.. but this was a huge disappointment!