 On the Anchor Bay DVD release there is a rough cut made by Sam Peckinpah  which he made showed to the test audience. Because the majority of the  audience walked out, from the imfamous sex between Fassett and his wife. The  producer wanted Peckinpah to cut the scene out. Once he refuse to made the  cuts, he got fired. Other scenes. 1) The sex scene is more extended and shot  more wobbly to express how Fassett breaking point for revenge had started. 2)  Delete scene of Osterman and Joe talking on the phone about their deal. 3)  Extended scene of Virginia flirting with Dick on the phone. 4) There a  deleted scene of John Tanner of having an affair with his director Marcia,  there wakes up to find her dead. 5) The scene where Tanner and guest are  arguing by the dinner table, in the theatrical cut Fassett switches on a  Swiss ad, the Peckinpahs cut he has like a big image of Danforth. 6)  Alterative ending is juxtapositioned between Tanner searching for his family  and the TV studio.