 and introduces  Harold Abrahams while playing cricket with his colleagues. The scene in the  train station, where Monty meets Harold is absent, as well as the loading of  the baggage in the taxi they share. We simply see Monty writing a letter to  his parents, mentioning that "Harold is as intense as ever" (cut to the  cricket scene, maybe 30 seconds long), and then continues with "I remember  our first day... we shared a taxi together" (cut to the two students  unloading their stuff from the car). This alternate version also have  slightly different end credits, and does not mention Harold marrying Sybil.   The differences are minor (the U.S. version provides a more shocking memento  of WWI, when it shows crippled baggage handlers in the station); one of the  reasons the cricket scene was dropped in favour  of the station one was due  to the distributors worry that the American  market would not understand it.