{"id":4002,"date":"2017-07-05T07:24:02","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T12:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=4002"},"modified":"2017-07-05T07:24:02","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T12:24:02","slug":"how-rabbit-run-film-was-lost-and-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2017\/07\/05\/how-rabbit-run-film-was-lost-and-found\/","title":{"rendered":"How Rabbit, Run film was lost and found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-05-at-6.11.06-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4003\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-05-at-6.11.06-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-05-at-6.11.06-AM.png 580w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-05-at-6.11.06-AM-300x237.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-05-at-6.11.06-AM-380x300.png 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a>Updike fans know that James Caan starred in a film version of\u00a0<em>Rabbit, Run<\/em> that premiered in Reading and was so\u00a0<em>un<\/em>warmly received that the studio decided against a wider release. And Updike fans know that the film is rarely shown.<\/p>\n<p>But who knew it was lost? And now found?<\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;TCM Unearths the 1970 movie version of John Updike&#8217;s Rabbit, Run,&#8221; freelance journalist <strong>Shaw Conner<\/strong> cites a 2007\u00a0<em>Reading Eagle\u00a0<\/em>story you may have missed. That article reported that\u00a0&#8220;<em>Rabbit, Run<\/em> may have been lost forever if it wasn&#8217;t for <strong>Ray Dennis Steckler<\/strong>. Steckler, who made a name for himself in the &#8217;70s for adult films such as\u00a0<em>Sexual Satanic Awareness<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Red Heat\u00a0<\/em>(he also made the rather fabulously titled 1964 cheapie\u00a0<em>The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies<\/em>), bought a 16mm print of the film for $1000 after seeing an ad for it in a magazine. Originally from Reading himself, Steckler wanted a little piece of home. He later gave the print to the organizer of a film festival in Berks County (a county in Pennsylvania that includes Reading).That print ended up at the Historical Society of Berks County.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shawnconner.com\/2017\/06\/rabbit-run-movie-1970\/\">Read the rest of the article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updike fans know that James Caan starred in a film version of\u00a0Rabbit, Run that premiered in Reading and was so\u00a0unwarmly received that the studio decided against a wider release. And Updike fans know that the film is rarely shown. But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2017\/07\/05\/how-rabbit-run-film-was-lost-and-found\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,21,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performances","category-lost-and-found","category-updike-in-context"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4004,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002\/revisions\/4004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}