Missing scene?


I just watched the Blu Ray with a friend of mine who saw the film in the 60s, and she says she remembers seeing a scene depicting the battle of Shiloh, where we see Linus getting killed. Does anyone else remember seeing such a scene?

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Your question came up three times! To answer it, all I've seen was the scene where Zeb is at the makeshift hospital and they bring in Linus' body without Zeb's knowledge. From what I remember reading, the footage from Shiloh is taken from another Civil War movie.



"There will be blood. Oh, yes! There will be blood."-Jigsaw; "Saw II"

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Thanks, sorry about the post repeats, don't know how that happened.

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Thanks, sorry about the post repeats, don't know how that happened.

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Lol! Now the apology is on repeat!



"There will be blood. Oh, yes! There will be blood."-Jigsaw; "Saw II"

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I found out the movie where the Civil War battle footage is from: "Raintree County"(1957) starring Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor.



"There will be blood. Oh, yes! There will be blood."-Jigsaw; "Saw II"

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Thank you. I love when people go to the trouble to research these little details from films. They're not usually important but always quite interesting.

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So...is there a missing scene, or was it just memory building up a different image for the OP?

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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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This is a fifty four year old memory talking but all I can remember is being surprised when the stretcher bearer said that it was Captain Rawlins. I don't think that I would have been surprised if I had already seen him being killed.

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