The film was entirely shot on location in New York City.The exploitational film was initially released in mid-December of 1977 with an R-rating, but then to make the film available to younger audiences and also for television, the dark film was re-edited (mostly by editing out six minutes of footage) and released with a PG rating in March of 1979, without the coarse language and explicit sex scenes (such as Stephanie""s attempted rape and he topless dancer).Balin hypothesized hat possessing the stone would make Thorin even more irrational:That stone crowns all...Oh, why don""t you pick on the gunslingers and the tinhorn gamblers instead of a girl tryin"" to make an honest dollar?McAdam stepped forward to heroically defend her, and she thanked him with a smile, but realized that she had no choice.Using the ship""s nuclear power source on the bridge, he plugged in his device and activated the control panel to access the database and view its visual log "to figure out what happened.