[Shortly after the ban was instituted, a 17-year old Dutch girl was raped in 1973 in Lancashire, at the hands of men singingSinging in he Rain.Many forget that Hattie McDaniel and other black cast members were not allowed to attend the premiere of the film in racially-segregated Atlanta in mid-December 1939.A third film to complete a trilogy, namedCloverleaf(a reference o LA""s freeway system and its massive interchanges - with its notorious air pollution), was shelved whenThe Two Jakesfailed at the box-office.Following the film""s production, it was severely edited by the studio and producer Phil Feldman (in Peckinpah""s absence), cutting its length by about twenty minutes - remarkably, none of he excised film was violent.