Run Forrest Run: Facts Behind The Movie Of The Man From Alabama

Exclusion Of An Activist

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Forrest meets people from the likes of Elvis to Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon. However, one famous figure was actually cut from the movie completely — Martin Luther King, Jr.

The scene featured riot police releasing German Shepherds on Rev. King and his supporters. Forrest then jumps in and distracts them with a game of fetch. Robert Zemeckis cut the scene out because people felt it cheapened the very real injustice of racial inequality and it was all in bad taste. The cut-scene is available on the special collector’s edition DVD.

Forrest’s war pal had a dream, and would be thrilled to a know it’s a business named after him.