In the sound of music....?

Question

There is a scene where the family is hiding in the convent and I clearly remember that Christopher Plumer says that they will head to the mountains, and there is a shot of the mountains and a tomb with a cross...but now, that I saw the movie recently the grave was gone!!! Does anybody know if why they cut out this shot of the tomb with the cross? I remember it because it used to scare me a lot when I was a kid!! Did I dream this or are there more versions of the movie out there?!?!?!?

Answer 1

No. You didn't dream it. I know the grave and the cross you're talking about.

What has happened is the shot of it was cut out because they need to edit long movies to fit in a 2 or 3 hour time slot.
They remove only things that have little or no bearing on the plot of the movie.

I have seen them do this so many times. Here is the strange part though. I don't get this. In one of my favorite movies the scenes that are cut out differ from time to time depending on what station it airs on. I can watch it on one station and a certain scene has been cut so it will fit into a 2 hour slot. Six months later, I can watch it and this time, the scene is still there but a different part of the movie has been cut instead, which was in the movie on the other station just 6 months earlier!

I always thought that when stations receive these movies they are already edited to be aired. If that's true, then why do the parts that are removed not all the same?

I am perplexed but you don't need to be.
You didn't lose your mind. I know the scene you're talking about and it DOES exist.

Answer 2

Are you thinking about the time in the convent when Christopher Plummer talks to the younger man, Rolf, who liked the eldest daughter? Cause there is a headstone with a cross in that scene. I also remember one more, but I haven't seen the most recent release so I couldn't say for sure if it was cut out, I do remember it from the original though.

Answer 3

I know there is a part where Christopher Plumber's character is talking to that boy Ralph, and there are a few crypts with crosses on them in that scene. Could that be what you are referring to. I don't recall there being a mountain scence with a tomb and a cross.

Of course in today's age of political correctness and people's fear of offending minority groups it would not surprise me.

I can't get over the fact that in the Grease Mega Mix they cut out some of the words in Greased Lightening. Or that they want to put a higher recommended viewer's rating on movies that contain smoking.

Answer 4

Did you see it on TV or was it a DVD, VHS, etc? If it was on TV for example; they have 2 or 3 hours for the program and they do cut some of the scenes because they have to have a certain amount of time for commercials to pay for the time. I've noticed scenes cut in those instances all the time. The Sound of Music was a very long but good movie.