152 min version?

I also remember reading somewhere about the scene where Tyreen gets his feather that he wears in his hat. Before the "no fires tonight" scene, while the commmand is riding toward Mexico, Tyreen shoots a bird from the sky and takes one of its feathers to wear in his hat, which goes along with Dundee's characterization of him as a "would-be cavalier."

I read a review of the Extended Version DVD over at amazon that was very helpful in describing what was cut from the proposed 152 minute cut. Most of it is what Hancock talked about, but it's still interesting. The reviewers name is Mark Marcon if you don't want to follow the link.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/B00083FZFY/ref=cm_rev_sort/102-6048504-6380932?customer-reviews.sort_by=-HelpfulVotes&s=dvd&x=7&y=17

"Congratulations, Major. It appears that at last you have found yourself a real war." Ben Tyreen

The Apache massacre at the Rostes ranch (occurring during a Halloween party, of all things, imagine what Peckinpah could have done with that one) was apparently never filmed. All the other scenes referred to in posts above, save one that shows Tyreen "getting" a feather for his cap, were in fact in the original release of the film.

You folks just have to see these things quickly, within the first week after they open, that's all. That's how I saw "The Wild Bunch" before it was cut by Warners, with scenes that were onlu to reappear on its DVD release. It's also the way I saw "Heaven's Gate" in all its 4.5 hour "glory" during the one-week engagement in NYC at its full length. And in Passaic, NJ, during high school, I even saw a version of "One-Eyed Jacks" which made very clear that Brando had an affair with a Chinese woman during his convalescence at the beach-side fishing complex (a sequence famously cut from the final print against Brando's wishes); this is no longer evident on the version show on tv or the cheapo DVD you can find in supermarkets.

See, there are some benefits to being relatively old!