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Lorelei Shark's lips appear on the famous poster. She received $120 for two hours of modeling for the poster art.
The US version cuts out the song/scene 'Super Heroes'.
When Rocky Horror had it's original U.S. release in 1975, the theatrical version was the U.K. release of the film. But when Rocky Horror didn't do as great as 20th Century Fox thought it would, the film was taken out of circulation for a little while. During that time, Fox removed "Super Heroes", "Science Fiction Double Feature Reprise", and the instrumental during the end credits, and replaced the end credits with a shortened version of "The Time Warp". Fox then re-released the slightly edited film for midnight showings as the U.S. version of the film, and the original U.K. version of the film became known as "The European Version". Fox did allow theatres to show the European Version under special circumstances such as Halloween showings or theatre anniversaries of the Midnight Shows, and the rarely seen European Version usually was a big event at those theatres.But as anybody in the film world knows, film prints get damaged due to age, repeated showings, and film breakage. When Fox allowed Rocky Horror to be released on VHS around the late 80's, they made a new master print from the negative of the original U.K. version for video purposes. But as damaged film prints came in, a replacement print was sent out, of the U.K. version. After a while, prints of the U.K. version began to outnumber prints of the U.S. version until a point in time when Fox declared the U.K. version was the official release version for the U.S..
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