Original theatrical release film poster, Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Special Edition, 1980. British Quad size. First released in 1977 by Columbia, the famous Steven Spielberg Sci-Fi movie starred Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, François Truffaut and Cary Guffey.

In 1979 Columbia gave Spielberg $1.5 million to produce what became the “Special Edition” of the film. Spielberg added seven minutes of new footage, but also deleted or shortened various existing scenes by ten minutes, so that the Special Edition was three minutes shorter than the original 1977 release.

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