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Tim Lucas
When the name of Bill Carson is called out, Lee Van Cleef returns to the film as Angel Eyes. At this point in the theatrical cut, Van Cleef has been out of the picture for close to a full hour, which is unusual for one of the film's main stars. But his long absence was imposed on the film by the removal of that scene about 40 minutes into it, the scene he shared in the ruined fort, which ended with him being sent to this prisoner of war camp.
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Tim Lucas
This beating of Tuco was cut by roughly two minutes for the film's UK release until it was finally passed there without cuts in 1999. But even this version is cut from a longer version that still exists, though no longer in optimal form. It has been included with the extras on earlier releases of the film, and I suspect this one. And what happens in this more extended cut is that it becomes much more about the song than about the beating, which I feel is a dramatic miscalculation.
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