What was the running time (in minutes) of the first cut of The Shining?

What was the running time of the first cut of The Shining? The first released cut ran 146 minutes. This was the version that premiered in the United States in May 1980, before Stanley Kubrick shortened it shortly after release.

The omitted material included a brief hospital coda showing Wendy and Danny after the Overlook Hotel ordeal. In that scene, the hotel manager Stuart Ullman visited Wendy and Danny and suggested that the supernatural danger might not be entirely over. Kubrick removed the sequence after the film had played for about a week.

The resulting American theatrical version ran 144 minutes and became the commonly circulated long cut. A much shorter European version, assembled for release outside North America, runs about 119 minutes. These different versions explain why published runtimes for The Shining can vary substantially.

The phrase “first cut” is sometimes confused with an early editing assembly, which may have been longer but was not the publicly screened version. In quiz and film-history usage, 146 minutes refers to the original premiere version, while 144 minutes identifies the later American cut.