 There are (or were) three versions, the original release version, the cut  version that replaced the original release several months into its initial  run, and the current "restored" version.  (The additional cuts in 1971 are  not enumerated here.)  Although the restored version is close to the  original, there are several differences. The whole beginning was heavily cut  in version 2.  Cuts included the shot of goggles on the tree, Brightons  "remarkable man" line to the priest, early shots of the drafting room scene,  the whole officers mess sequence where hes called a clown and upsets water  on someone, and some dialogue between the General and Dryden.  All of these  scenes are back in version 3, with one small exception.  When Lawrence leaves  his drafting table to see the general, the shot originally continued.  One of  his companions picks up the note that Lawrence left and says, "He has,  too."	"Has what?," says the other.  "Gone to see the General."  In version 3  you can still see the fellow reaching for the note at the end of the shot.  Some dialogue between Lawrence and Feisal just before Lawrence starts across  the desert was cut in version 2 and has been restored in version 3. In the  original, when Abu Tai says, at the water hole, "Come and visit me," there  was a direct cut to a long pan in his tent that starts with the face of a  small girl.  In version 2 there was, unaccountably, a new shot added, that  tracks forward over the rocks of a cliff to reveal Tais tent village below.   This shot had music that was not in the original print, and was the only  thing ADDED to the short version.  The next shot was the same pan as the  original, only shortened, starting after the face of the small girl.  (The  new shot adds nothing to the continuity and why it was added is a mystery.)   In version 3, both the shot of the tent village from the cliff and the full  tent pan with the girls face are used.	In addition, there several shots of  Lawrences men arriving at Tais tent village that were not in version 1 or  2, which is the only apparent addition of new material in version 3. When  Lawrence returns to Allenby just before the intermission, there were several  bits of dialogue in version 1 that were cut for version 2; also a shot of  Lawrence looking up at the soldiers on the balconies.  All these have been  restored in version 3.  The last shot before the intermission was a long shot  of Allenby, Dryden and Brighton walking along a circular terrace.  This shot  was greatly shortened for version 2, and the full shot was not been restored  in version 3.  Likewise, the the beginning of the first shot after the  intermission was truncated in version 2 and has not been restored in version  3. Some brief dialogue in the scene with Bentley and Feisal was cut in  version 2, and has been restored. In version 2, the whole sequence with  Allenby and Brighton in a British