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From: shiue@h-sc1.UUCP (steve shiue)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: "Strangers on a Train"
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Date: Wed, 18-Dec-85 00:44:25 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 18 00:44:25 1985
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> My husband and I have both seen "Strangers on a Train" a number of times and
> count it as one of our top 5 Hitchcock films.  However, something has been
> bugging us both about this film -- we both could swear that we have seen a
> scene in this film in which Bruno (Robert Walker) is sitting watching Guy
> (Farley Granger) play a professional tennis game.  Every head in the crowd
> turns back and forth watching the game, but Bruno's who stares straight ahead.
> A very striking scene, as you may guess.  The past five or so times we have
> seen this film on television this scene is not there!  Was it ever there,
> or are my husband and I suffering from mass hallucination?
> 
> Laura Clifford

	I have seen this film a few times on screen and through VCR, and have
noted this scene each time - it's one of the funniest in the film.  I've never
seen the film on TV, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if they were editing
out "non-essential" scenes in order to increase advertising time.
				-Steve Shiue

"Parts.  I've never done whole parts." -Herbert West