There were reportedly a total of 121 different edits (47 cuts, 43 audio changes, and 31 scenes with alternative footage).He promised o lock them up and deliver them to the authorities the next morning.However, Big Sam sympathetically released the two convicts to escape in the middle of the night - after showing the scars on his wrist that he was an ex-con himself.During almost the entire trolley-car ride to the city, one of cinema's most exquisitely-fashioned sequences, the camera is set in the same position, viewing the scenery as the tram turns and glides through curves - first trees and forests next to the lake, then the outskirts of the city with suburbia, factories, shops, and houses, and then he City itself.Those big fellas just make a lot of noise and land about five miles behind the line.The things we've got to watch out for are them black ones.They don't give you much warning...Mother Earth - press yourselves down upon her.Bury yourselves deep into her.Just keep your eyes on me.When you see me flop, you flop, only try to beat me to it."In their first night at the front, a bombardment erupts while they are stringing up barbed wire.One of the boys is blinded by shell fire and screams: "My eyes! I'm blind.I can't see." He staggers and is killed when he runs wildly toward the enemy line and into the path of machine-gun fire.