Missing scene in Netflix version
This is one of my favorite films, heist genre or otherwise. I saw it three times in the theater at the time of its release and had the VHS version. Hard to believe it's still not out in a general DVD release. So when I saw it available to stream live on Netflix, I watched it. Much to my surprise, there was at least one scene that was MISSING. It was the scene immediately following the one in which Derek Newark jams the sawed-off shotgun between Bernard Hill's legs and begs him to say "no" to the caper. Hill is then seen sitting in the bathroom in his boxer shorts, drinking his Scotch, with his pants draped over a railing. The little girl in the film (the "nanny's" daughter) comes up to Hill and says rather pointedly, "You've soiled your trousers." He awkwardly confirms the fact, and she goes away. That scene simply was gone. I wonder what other scenes may have been cut. Why would that scene be deliberately edited out? Still one of my faves.
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