The Original Version of ‘Clerks’ Ended With One of the Main Characters Getting Murdered

The Original Version of ‘Clerks’ Ended With One of the Main Characters Getting Murdered

When Kevin Smith’s Clerks was first screened in a nearly-empty theater at the Independent Feature Film Market in 1993, the few people in attendance got to see an ending that wouldn’t surface again until ten years later. Unlike the version we’ve all come to know, the original cut concluded with Dante Hicks (as played by Brian O’Halloran) unexpectedly dying. Just after we see Randal Graves (Jeff Anderson) for the last time, a man walks into the Qu…