4 hour version?

There is a review on here that mentions that the 4 hour version was a rough cut but he then says that on the complete cast list some of the names are not in it which would indicate a longer version!

regarding the so called four hour version - I wrote the details on the `alternative version'. As I started there is/was NO four hour version!!!!!! All films are longer during the editing stage than their final released version. I am a filmmaker myself and understand the process of cutting film very well. In the original article that I referred to, the film's editor Richard Meyer said that the `cut' was about four hours at one stage of the editing process. As an experienced big movie editor he says this is not unusual. But after discussion the present cut was agreed on. EVERY FILM ever made goes through the same process. YOu may film the original script but during editing some scenes clearly don't work. Look at the amount of deleted scenes in most modern DVD releases. THese scenes are rarely cut because of 'unfeeling producers', but because there is a clear consensus that they don't work. Clearly WATERLOO went through the same process. Don't get me wrong I LOVE this film and wish they'd gone for a three hour cut. But hey, they didn't and that's life!!!. Unlike today long films, they were not good for business in the late sixties with most Hollywood studies in financial meltdown. No one would have seriously considered releasing a film at four hours in 1970. The whole roadshow concept of film presentation was on the wane in the wake of films like EASY RIDER. So please forget any idea of a `director's cut' for WATERLOO. IT DOES NOT OR EVER DID EXIST as an approved version. The 132 version is the version Bondarchuk and DeLaurentiis agreed on. That's the only version that was music scored, sound mixed and released. Mosfilm are adamant that they only have elements for the 132 version. I hope this puts the four hour myth to bed!