about missing scenes...the original screenplay for the movie included more scenes than were actually filmed. the reason for the scenes not being filmed at all or being filmed and not included in the final print were due to the movie's running time. in an interview I saw with Debbie Reynolds (which may be on the 3-disc edition) she says that there were never any scenes filmed with Hope Lange as George Peppard's love interest in the Railroad segment with Henry Fonda and Richard Widmark. She said those scenes were written and Lange was cast but that entire segment (directed by George Marshall) had to be cut down in running time so all scenes with Lange were simply dropped. One reason why this particular segment was singled out for editing was the fact that Henry Hathaway was the primary director and he saw to it that none of the 3 segments he directed (the Rivers with James Stewart, the Plains with Gregory Peck & the Outlaws with Eli Wallach) received much editing down. And John Ford's civil war segment wasn't really long enough to be cut much.
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