Three deleted scenes
I seem to remember three scenes from the movie's initil release that have since been deleted from subsequent TV, video, and DVD offerings. Just wondering if anybody else recalls these as well....
The beginning of the movie starts with an aerial view of Bermuda, pans out to the ocean, and then we see David and Gail scuba diving,......
...but the first time I saw the movie it started with the storm that sunk The Goliath and showed a young boy finding the wreck's lone survivor washed up on the beach. (It is later revealed through dialogue that the boy was Romer Treece and the survivor was Adam Coffin)
Secondly, as David and Treece come to Gail's rescue at the hotel, we see David's fight with a bad guy aboard the beach elevator,......
....but in the original version there is a scene showing Treece tangling with one of Cloche's goons outside the hotel. They are on a lawn, I believe, and Treece dispatches the bad guy by using a garden hose or something, twirling it around and then using it to snag the bag guy's feet, yanking them out from beneath him. He then knocks the guy out with a punch or kick.
Finally, the original version had a scene between Coffin and Gail aboard Treece's boat while David and Treece are diving. Coffin tells Gail (dialogue which was in the novel) about how Treece's wife died because of a drug dealer, and how the dealer in question was subsequently found stuffed in a tree....with every joint in his body twisted and busted in the wrong direction! He never comes right out and says that Treece did it, but it is strongly insinuated.
I only saw that scene the first time I saw the movie and it has been deleted ever since.
Does anybody else remember these scenes?