Columbia Pictures reissued Man’s Castle in 1938 to take advantage of Spencer Tracy’s two consecutive Best Actor Oscars (for Captains Courageous in 1937 and Boy’s Town in 1938). But major adjustments had to be made for this quintessential pre-Code film, with its depictions of premarital sex, casual prostitution, joyful sensuality, and even a flash of male nudity. Entire scenes, mostly involving the licentious nightclub entertainer played by Glenda Farrell, were deleted, a marriage ceremony was moved from the end of the film to an early reel to “legitimize” Tracy and Young’s relationship, and many individual shots were squelched. Because those edits were made to the camera negative, it was thought the original version had been definitively lost until Rita Belda, VP of asset management, film restoration, and digital mastering at Sony Pictures Entertainment, got on the case and located most of the missing material. In this presentation, she’ll lead us through her process of tracking down prints and comparing versions in an effort to best recreate Borzage’s original vision.