I think the page (which is simply someone's Microsoft Word Document saved as HTML and put online-It's not even a real site, Just someone's archives of film synopses)just mis-referenced the running time and rating. It says nothing in the text about an "R" rating. I can't believe that the second highest grossing film of 1977 (After Star Wars!) would have come out in an R rated version and no one noticed it being recut and rereleased as a PG film. It's not too hard to find info regarding Saturday Night Fever's rerelease. Twenty-five year old memories are tricky and unreliable things. I still swear I saw an extended cut of Star Wars the first time it aired on Network TV. I remember seeing the scene with Biggs that didn't make it into the SE. Other folks remember it too(according to letters to SW Insider mag), but apparently we all imagined it. Official word is that it didn't air like that. I suspect we just saw some
making of special and, in our minds, incorporated it into the film. I know I saw the Jabba footage, with the little Scottish guy that was reinstated with a superimposed CGI Jabba, years ago. So it must have been the same special. Anyway, I suspect false memories here.
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scene where Bufford told them to set up a roadblock. JR tells him, "good idea." with a bad dub of someone else's voice the statement, "what the hell you know" was added in. I think Gleason originally may or could have said, "what the f**k you know".
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You are thinking of the TV version. The cursing was redubbed by Henry Cordon, the second voice of Fred Flintstone. That was not in the Theatrical version. Gleason wrote all his own dialog and First time director Hal Needam was not going to dub over that.