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Subject: Re: In other words ...

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Susan

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Date Posted: 10:33:37 10/16/02 Wed
In reply to: Michelle 's message, "Re: In other words ..." on 02:58:21 10/16/02 Wed

Well, maybe I wasn't clear about the card-playing scene ... Because the picture has been edited to fit on a television screen, they had to snip off some of the picture from the left and/or right side the scene throughout the film--as opposed to the letterbox version, in which you get the full picture as it was shown on the movie screen, but then it's shrunk down with lots of black space at the top and bottom of the screen. Neither one is really ideal. So in the TV version, you can't see both sides of the table (both Bobby and David Niven) during the Whist game on the train. They closed up a lot more on Niven than on RN. I'm sure they showed a few shots of them, but I must've blinked and missed them!

I seriously doubt that any of Robert Newton's scenes were cut out since there was so much other stuff they could have cut without losing any dialog, but I don't know for sure since I don't have a copy. Hmm, maybe you know someone in the U.S. who'd be glad to record the full version for you next time it's on TV here? ;-)

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