I saw this movbie many years ago and seem to remember some very brutal scenes that were cut out of the new releases of this movie. Does anyone else remember them. I seem to recall Brian Donlevy in one of them.
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Echoing John, the original running time in theatrical release in 1956 is the same as the DVD running time, so it is clearly a case of your memory playing tricks OP; as a longtime film buff I have occasionally experienced similar memory jogs where I was CERTAIN that this or that was shown in a film I'd seen decades earlier. This phenomenon is best described in Hitchcock's famous anecdote about PSYCHO, where he explains how all sort of explicit violence (and nudity) attributed to his shower scene was merely imagined by various viewers, of course due to the quality of his suggestive filming & editing.
"Three quarters of what is said here can be completely discounted as the raving of imbeciles" - Donald Wolfit in Blood of the Vampire (1958)
Some of what IS shown such as on the recent TCM broadcast was pretty violent/brutal for a 1946 film, though more alluded to than being in your face graphic- settler women and men in different scenes being chased down by Indians and pummeled violently with tomahawks. You see the Indians surrounding their victims and whacking away at them but the victims are hidden from view.
shareTurtletommy: You and I seem to be committed to making our feelings known about this film: I because I am such a fan of it. You because you feel it is overrated. It is fun countering you because you are very respectful in your responses. This time we agree. I saw it again last night. I love it so much I repeat pieces of it. I do the same thing with "Shane". The grotesque violence, save the fist fight, is left to our imagination. That is fine with me. I needed that fist fight in all its bloody glory, and an arrow or two, but I didn't need to see the rape of an Indian girl or the young wife getting her face smashed in with a tomahawk. I think I'll have somemore rocky road ice cream to celebrate our agreement.
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This is just a guess, but is it possible OP is remembering Brian Donlevey's character's hanging demise in Barbary Coast and confusing it with Canyon Passage?
By the way those two movies have a lot in common. Both are such accurate portayals of frontier times, and both set in a time period somewhat before the usual western, that they don't fit into the shoot'em-up genre very comfortably. I suspect those who found CP boring would feel the same about Barbary Coast. I loved both, but then that's why horses race.
He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and on the good... St. Matthew 5:45