Thief. Below: the recent Criterion Blu-ray after Mann s restoration
When Dr. James Steffen was in high school, a friend had an encounter with a film called
Invasion of the Bee Girls, a 1973 exploitation film. His friend described seeing the film which included a number of scandalous scenes, including an explicit topless scene broadcast on late night television. But when the film eventually made its way to home video, Steffen felt a little frustrated. Scenes his friend had described from the television broadcast were nowhere to be found. Somewhere along the way, some entity had chosen to excise certain scenes from the picture. All was not lost, however. In 2017, Shout Factory released the full, uncut film on blu-ray, and Steffen finally got to see the film as intended.