Dances with Wolves
One year after the original theatrical release of "Dances with Wolves", a four-hour version of the film opened at select theaters in London. This longer cut was titled "Dances with Wolves: The Special Edition", and it restored nearly an hour's worth of scenes that had been removed to keep the original film's running time under 3 hours. In a letter to British film reviewers, Kevin Costner and producer Jim Wilson addressed their reasons for presenting a longer version of the film: