Western Movie with Gov. Otter May Have Been Edited to Include Sex Scenes
It’s not a joke.
That’s essentially what happened to Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter when he offered to provide horses for “a low-budget horse opera” filming near Weiser. The then-lieutenant governor talked to the director, who liked Otter’s authentic Idaho-cowboy looks so much, he asked him to read for the part of the corrupt sheriff.
Otter took a credited, speaking role in the film, originally produced as “Roundup” and later re-titled “A Time to Revenge.” The movie began filming in 1993, was released straight to video as an R-rated film in 1997 and re-released as unrated in 2003.
But the unrated version isn’t even a facsimile of the movie Otter knew, Otter spokesmen John Hanian and Mark Warbis said Wednesday
That final version features more than 10 minutes of soft-core pornography — simulated sex scenes with women in full frontal nudity. Those scenes were not in the original script, Hanian and Warbis said, and Otter had no knowledge of them until contacted by the Post Register.
Otter, who appears and speaks in three scenes totaling three minutes and four seconds, is fully clothed, as is nearly everyone else in the film.
After the production company went bankrupt, filming stopped in Idaho. The movie rights were sold, the film was re-edited and, four years later, it was released as “A Time to Revenge.”
” How would the governor, or at that time the lieutenant governor, have had anything to do with that or know about it? There was no reason for it. His part was minuscule,” Warbis said.
Hanian said his boss read the entire script before signing on and found nothing “unseemly or untoward in any part.”
Peg Owens, who ran the Idaho Film Office, recalled Otter going to Los Angeles with her to promote Idaho to the film industry.
“I think that’s when someone talked to him about filming this particular project,” she said. “They approached him for some horses and he ended up playing a small role just for fun. I think he was just trying to help some filmmakers and what happened to that movie happened after.”
That’s essentially what happened to Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter when he offered to provide horses for “a low-budget horse opera” filming near Weiser. The then-lieutenant governor talked to the director, who liked Otter’s authentic Idaho-cowboy looks so much, he asked him to read for the part of the corrupt sheriff.
Otter took a credited, speaking role in the film, originally produced as “Roundup” and later re-titled “A Time to Revenge.” The movie began filming in 1993, was released straight to video as an R-rated film in 1997 and re-released as unrated in 2003.
But the unrated version isn’t even a facsimile of the movie Otter knew, Otter spokesmen John Hanian and Mark Warbis said Wednesday
That final version features more than 10 minutes of soft-core pornography — simulated sex scenes with women in full frontal nudity. Those scenes were not in the original script, Hanian and Warbis said, and Otter had no knowledge of them until contacted by the Post Register.
Otter, who appears and speaks in three scenes totaling three minutes and four seconds, is fully clothed, as is nearly everyone else in the film.
After the production company went bankrupt, filming stopped in Idaho. The movie rights were sold, the film was re-edited and, four years later, it was released as “A Time to Revenge.”
Hanian said his boss read the entire script before signing on and found nothing “unseemly or untoward in any part.”
Peg Owens, who ran the Idaho Film Office, recalled Otter going to Los Angeles with her to promote Idaho to the film industry.
“I think that’s when someone talked to him about filming this particular project,” she said. “They approached him for some horses and he ended up playing a small role just for fun. I think he was just trying to help some filmmakers and what happened to that movie happened after.”
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