I actually remember seeing these scenes! I believe I saw them when Superman was being shown on television several years after its release. I have often wondered why I have not seen these scenes in other showings and releases of the movie. I now strongly believe that I was watching a special edition of the movie that night. Even tonight I was just talking to myself about the scene when Luthor feeds Miss Tessmacher to the lions and hoping that someone uploaded onto RUclips so I could see it again, just to make sure that it actually existed, and I wasn't just imagining it! Thanks for uploading it! Now I can put that debate with myself to rest-it WAS a real scene, I DID actually see it, and the reason I haven't seen it in years is because it was deleted from the final cut. As I said, probably the reason that I saw it that one time on TV was that the station was probably doing a "special showing" of the movie that included several deleted scenes. Now, there is another scene that I'm positive I saw in the original movie (Yeah, I'm old enough to remember when the 1978 movie came out! I was twelve at the time!) that again I have not seen in subsequent showings and releases. It's that shows several little Girl Scouts hiking in the Hollywood Hills, right by the Hollywood sign. Then when Luthor's bomb devastates Southern California the girls find themselves in jeopardy, but are able to make it to safety, remarkably without Superman's help, I believe! I've often wanted to see this scene again, and have wondered why it was shown in the original release of the film, but was never shown again!
spy4863 it's part of the international cut, i keep hoping they'd release the movie on blu-ray. Making it something like 188 minutes long. Perhaps if there's an internet push, like the Donner cut of Superman II, maybe they'd put it out on dvd. Here's hoping.
I remember the scene where Luthor has Otis feed Miss Tessmacher to the jungle cats and Superman saving her. Must have been when it was first on cable. Deleted scenes with this and Superman 2 and Wrath of Khan were shown on network tv but not in theaters.
I'd hoped there would have been a delete scene added back for Star Trek 3, but I must have missed it when it first aired, and there was nothing when I saw it later.
Yes. Plus the earthquake deleted scenes are fantastic. But pace is everything and must be put above everything else. Donner himself said he wasn't pleased with the 3-hour version aired on TV because of the pace.
They went to the trouble of storyboarding this sequence and filming it so I think the decision to cut it must have been made at the last minute. Maybe it was cut to shorten the running time of the movie. That, or it didn't do well in test screenings or maybe after seeing it Donner or the Salkinds felt it was too silly. Although, the Salkinds weren't too concerned with silliness in the third movie.
The Salkinds weren't that concerned with silliness in the second movie, or else they wouldn't have canned Richard Donner and allowed Richard Lester to get his schtick on. Of course, the Saalkinds would go on to give us _Santa Claus: The Movie_ with Santa basically playing second fiddle to Dudley Moore and John Lithgow, so you see how little it mattered that they take things seriously.
She clearly accepts Lex for who he is. She's always telling him that he's sick. In this sequence she tells him he'd slit a baby's throat with a diaper pin so she was obviously fine with him being a psycho. It doesn't surprise me at all that Tessmacher and Otis are loyal to him. They're just as screwed up as he is.
I saw these scenes when I saw superman in the drive in on Union Blvd in Allentown PA. I was 5 so I thought i was just remembering wrong. I'm glad I wasn't
In the original script, the babies were gators, electric eels and sewer rats. But, the tank scene couldn't be filmed as such, because the special F/X weren't there. With today's CGI, it's no problem.
Too bad that Lex Luthor never returned to that underground hideout,however he got it and left behind a lot of his things there after he and Otis were arrested by Superman for their crimes against society.
Jurassic Park ripped em off!!!! Decades before they did the feeding scene. Only show the food. Not the critter or critters. then the end result. Aus the sound effects. & walla, Z ripoff, she is complete! Has been done in many other ways before this though also. but not at this level.
Lex Luthor didn‘t bother to think about Eve Teschmacher‘s mother when he decided to feed Eve to his pet monsters because she saved Superman‘s life so that he can save most of California after saving Eve‘s mother and everyone in Hackensack,NJ,from an Army missile that was heading there by error because Otis goofed up by not putting on the co-ordinates to send it to California with the Navy missile. Luthor wouldn‘t tell Eve‘s mother what happened to her if Superman didn‘t save her in time from Luthor‘s pets.
Gene friggin Hackman! The best!!
Valerie Perrine was sooo incredibly gorgeous !!
Complete opposite of how looked in her last days. Very sad!
@@jameshendricks2197
She is still alive
Not gorgeous...but the body was a 10 🥇
I remember this scene was in the original showing. It must have been deleted in later versions.
RIP Ned Beatty
I actually remember seeing these scenes! I believe I saw them when Superman was being shown on television several years after its release. I have often wondered why I have not seen these scenes in other showings and releases of the movie. I now strongly believe that I was watching a special edition of the movie that night. Even tonight I was just talking to myself about the scene when Luthor feeds Miss Tessmacher to the lions and hoping that someone uploaded onto RUclips so I could see it again, just to make sure that it actually existed, and I wasn't just imagining it! Thanks for uploading it! Now I can put that debate with myself to rest-it WAS a real scene, I DID actually see it, and the reason I haven't seen it in years is because it was deleted from the final cut. As I said, probably the reason that I saw it that one time on TV was that the station was probably doing a "special showing" of the movie that included several deleted scenes. Now, there is another scene that I'm positive I saw in the original movie (Yeah, I'm old enough to remember when the 1978 movie came out! I was twelve at the time!) that again I have not seen in subsequent showings and releases. It's that shows several little Girl Scouts hiking in the Hollywood Hills, right by the Hollywood sign. Then when Luthor's bomb devastates Southern California the girls find themselves in jeopardy, but are able to make it to safety, remarkably without Superman's help, I believe! I've often wanted to see this scene again, and have wondered why it was shown in the original release of the film, but was never shown again!
spy4863 it's part of the international cut, i keep hoping they'd release the movie on blu-ray. Making it something like 188 minutes long. Perhaps if there's an internet push, like the Donner cut of Superman II, maybe they'd put it out on dvd. Here's hoping.
@@andyrandall9289Your wish has come true, its on blu ray now, the extended tv version👍
RIGHT!! same... now where did the scene go that Lex puts SM through before he first enters his lair? (bullets, fire, etc)
1977
Süperman kızın topuklarına lazer ışını yapıyor ve annesi kulağını çekiyor sanırım o sahne de yok değil mi bende küçükken seyretmiştim
I remember the scene where Luthor has Otis feed Miss Tessmacher to the jungle cats and Superman saving her. Must have been when it was first on cable. Deleted scenes with this and Superman 2 and Wrath of Khan were shown on network tv but not in theaters.
I'd hoped there would have been a delete scene added back for Star Trek 3, but I must have missed it when it first aired, and there was nothing when I saw it later.
1977
3:02
Lex: Dinnertime, Miss Tessmacher! You'll satisfy the stomachs of my pets!
I can help but think Lex and Miss Tessmacher’s relationship was the basis for Paul Dini and Bruce Timm’s Joker and Harley Quinn relationship.
These scenes should have been included in the deluxe version.
Still, there's no explanation for why she helps Lex either, even though he almost killed her mother.
I don't think so.
Ikr?! LoL
@@connorbrennan4233
No need for explanation. It makes perfect sense
It was included in Superman: The Movie: Extended Cut
Holy toledo, I never knew they actually had deleted scenes in the film.
I KNEW I'd seen that final scene somewhere!
I remember It from the original theatrical release and on TV.
1977
Man of steel vs bone of teeth, it's radiculous 😅😅😅
If yous ask me that is by Farr the best superman christopher reeve best deleted scene
Yes she does 👍🏼
The pic in the frame on the far right at 1: 50
looks awfully like Hackman's character in 'The Conversation.'
If only *these* scenes were in the theatrical cut! Would have made this movie so much better! *These show that Lex Luthor is truly evil.
Yes. Plus the earthquake deleted scenes are fantastic. But pace is everything and must be put above everything else. Donner himself said he wasn't pleased with the 3-hour version aired on TV because of the pace.
1977
@@spkanava 1978.
They went to the trouble of storyboarding this sequence and filming it so I think the decision to cut it must have been made at the last minute. Maybe it was cut to shorten the running time of the movie. That, or it didn't do well in test screenings or maybe after seeing it Donner or the Salkinds felt it was too silly. Although, the Salkinds weren't too concerned with silliness in the third movie.
I think the plan was to film more scenes than would fit in the theatrical cut, then sell them to a network, getting paid by the minute of footage.
The Salkinds weren't that concerned with silliness in the second movie, or else they wouldn't have canned Richard Donner and allowed Richard Lester to get his schtick on. Of course, the Saalkinds would go on to give us _Santa Claus: The Movie_ with Santa basically playing second fiddle to Dudley Moore and John Lithgow, so you see how little it mattered that they take things seriously.
Well, if that scene where Lex tries to kill Ms. Teschmacher was put back in, then she would've never helped Lex Luthor escape.
Not true
@@integrity101 Well whaddya know, a reply from a comment I typed 8 years ago that I don't remember saying or when I didn't know much back then.
@@MyBeatleBoy60
They have a sick relationship is all.
@@integrity101 Figured that.
@@MyBeatleBoy60 I believe you were right a decade ago. It was wise for them to cut the scene.
i remember seeing this when it was released at the cinema.
You'd think that Lex and Otis would try to escape and hide after Superman saved the world.
You wonder why she breaks him outta jail when he almost killed her mother and all.
_And_ after nearly killing _her_ as well!
This was a deleted scene, so it wasn't the official continuity from Superman I to II.
She clearly accepts Lex for who he is. She's always telling him that he's sick. In this sequence she tells him he'd slit a baby's throat with a diaper pin so she was obviously fine with him being a psycho. It doesn't surprise me at all that Tessmacher and Otis are loyal to him. They're just as screwed up as he is.
@@bratton79 She likes the bad boys. She later even asks Superman: 'Why can't I ever get it on with the good guy?'
1977
Why did they delete this scene? Also, if you look carefully at 1:01 you can see one of the creature's heads. It looks like a lion to me.
This is on the Extended Cut
I saw these scenes when I saw superman in the drive in on Union Blvd in Allentown PA. I was 5 so I thought i was just remembering wrong. I'm glad I wasn't
In the original script, the babies were gators, electric eels and sewer rats. But, the tank scene couldn't be filmed as such, because the special F/X weren't there. With today's CGI, it's no problem.
Ah! So that's what they were! They always sounded like lions to me.
1977
This needs to be put back in the movie. Do it on the next blu ray release?
I actually HAD seen these scenes back in the movie, along with a few other deleted ones, and I can't remember where now... They do add to the movie...
Gene rocks, but glad they took it out. Great decision making.
Lex Luthor has a freaking Lion's Den!
Does anyone know the music Lex is playing
You must have been a Beautiful Baby...but Baby look at you now!
¿Cual es el nombre y autor de la obra que Lex Luthor interpreta al piano?
I wish HBO Max carried all of the editions of all of the Christopher Reeve Superman movies.
Fan edits destroy the official versions
1977
when I was little I sused to think the babies were alligators but looking closer I think the babies were more along the lines of dogs.
I was thinking panthers or lions with those sounds.
1977
I’ve seen this 🎥 on 📀, before I watched the whole Superman the 🎥 3 hours cut. 0:55, 1:21-2:05 🎹 3:04 Superman
?
1977
Too bad that Lex Luthor never returned to that underground hideout,however he got it and left behind a lot of his things there after he and Otis were arrested by Superman for their crimes against society.
The authorities must have cleaned it out after Luthor was arrested.
1977
1:59 what did he say? It's been dubbed out for some reason.
He says "Later."
1977
Haha oh Lex, you old charmer you, always feeding the ladies to jungle cats...
They should have left the 2nd scene in the final cut, and both scenes in the deluxe 3 hour version.
they are in the 3 hour version
1977
TERÄSMIEHET 1978
MAN OF STEEL produced by CHRISTOPHER NOLAN coming this summer
I come from the future and that movie sucked balls hahahaha
1978
Jurassic Park ripped em off!!!! Decades before they did the feeding scene.
Only show the food. Not the critter or critters. then the end result. Aus the sound effects. & walla, Z ripoff, she is complete! Has been done in many other ways before this though also. but not at this level.
looks like a cougar is being fed to cougars, how poetic
.....and that makes sense when women are crazy for her lovers.
loved valerie perrine in superman movies loved she jumped in her pantyhose into the pool save superman I love pantyhose soaked and wet
Lex Luthor didn‘t bother to think about Eve Teschmacher‘s mother when he decided to feed Eve to his pet monsters because she saved Superman‘s life so that he can save most of California after saving Eve‘s mother and everyone in Hackensack,NJ,from an Army missile that was heading there by error because Otis goofed up by not putting on the co-ordinates to send it to California with the Navy missile. Luthor wouldn‘t tell Eve‘s mother what happened to her if Superman didn‘t save her in time from Luthor‘s pets.
I'll just say that baby line she says is unfit for a movie like this.