The credits scene with Harry and Marv watching "Angels With Filthy Souls" in prison should've been in the film!

9:15 I'm good friends with Tracy J. Connor (the woman playing the cashier in this scene) and I conducted an interview with her for a podcast last February. She's recalled this day of shooting to me a couple times so I'll summarize the story of this scene to the best of my ability: Tracy showed up on set the day of shooting and noticed Macaulay Culkin seemed down and perhaps exhausted from shooting. She decided to perk him up and started to improvise with him before shooting. Then Chris Columbus walked by and overheard them and spontaneously decided to shoot Mac and Tracy's improvised lines. The entire rest of the grocery store scene after Kevin pays with Buzz's "life-savings" was made up by Tracy and Mac that day, which is why none of this appears in the script. Only exception to that was the punchline which Chris Columbus came up with: “Where do you live? I can’t tell you that. Why not? Because you’re a stranger.” After they had shot this scene, for whatever reason someone decided to have an actor by the name of Richard J. Firfer play the grocery store manager and say the lines that Tracy had just come up with. I just texted this video to Tracy to see if she has any further context, but from all the times we've talked about this, she honestly seems almost as clueless as the rest of us as to why they decided to shoot this retake. The inclusion of this take in the trailer made Tracy understandably unsure if she would make the final cut, but thankfully someone in their right mind, I guess Raja Gosnell, decided to restore Tracy's original scene with Mac in the final cut of the film. Hope this clears things up a bit. Thank you for the consistently stunning content and for playing a massive role in getting the Planes, Trains & Automobiles workprints released. Keep up the wonderful work, sir!

I love the uncut part where Marv says "He's a kid. Kids are stupid. I know I was." and Harry says "You still are, Marv."!

Harry calling Marv sick for flooding the houses was just enough humanising 👌

In regards to that scene being cut for making Marv and Harry too humanized/sympathetic, you left out the part where after Harry's statement that "Christmas has become too cynical/ect. Why can't people be nice to each other?" Marv then without any irony in his tone asks, "So which place should we break into first?" Thereby kinda hilariously contradicting Harry's whole statement, and making them unsympathetic again, showing they're being hypocritical.

Uncle Frank was almost the main villain of this movie

I could watch the wet bandits just driving around just talking for hours 😂

I always figured we never got a proper goodbye between Kate and Gus because John Candy was only available to shoot for one day and they didn't have time to move everything to the exterior of the McCallister house to shoot it during the day. Too bad. Even as a kid I wondered why we didn't see John Candy saying goodbye.

Catherine and John were both in SCTV together since the start of their careers, hence why their chemistry is so good together.

Seeing the scripted scenes of Kevin's mom say goodbye to John Candy's character and the stinger where we get a payoff to the "Snakes" line gives me a sense of completion I didn't know I was missing. Thank you.

The more clips I see of John Candy, the more I realize that he's likely the best improv actor I've ever seen - because he doesn't try too hard to sell the humor and he MAKES HIS DIALOGUE SOUND NATURAL, like a real person would say it. He sounds so conversational and when he's paired with someone who's just as good (his former SCTV co-star Catherine O'Hara) it results in magic.

My god, that movie has been part of my life so much so that watching new footage of it (or the making of) feels surreal.

Now, I want to see that lost post-credit scene with Harry and Marv behind bars and learning about "Snakes" to their surprise! Keep up the good work with these!

I'm surprise you didn't include the scene with Kevin's sister, Linnie, and the Father where she says "Families shouldn't be apart on Christmas." It pretty much sets up the ending scene on why they all came back home on Christmas Day. It's such a good scene too, I can't really see why it was cut.

The store manager from the trailer is in the final movie. In the scenes where the camera is focused only on the cashier, you can see him working in the background on the other side of the glass wall. As for why he'd be in the trailer, maybe someone figured it would be more realistic for the store manager to question Kevin than the cashier. Or maybe they wanted a different tone for the clip; the version with him is faster and more authority-figure-y than the cashier's casual-but-knowing questions.

pesci never got enough props for his comedic chops that scene between harry and marv is like something out of a tarantino film one issue i had with hughes is that most of the characters in his films were 2d not one of those scenes between harry and marv humanize them...just make them seem real and not cartoon characters

I love your Lost Versions. Thank you for putting in all this work. I would love to see one on The Santa Clause as apparently there’s a whole middle section that’s never been seen. There’s some outtakes online of Charlie getting beat up at school and Scott talking to him while carving a pumpkin. Also Scott getting fired from his job. Anyway, great work as usual!

John Candy was truly a legend.

My favorite deleted scene was the father-daughter talk between Peter and Linnie. About the true meaning of Christmas and families being together. Angela Goethals pulled it off well. I really liked seeing the character development of Kevin's siblings throughout the film such as Buzz (Devin Ratray) and Megan (Hillary Wolf). I wish they would've kept this one in with Linnie, it looked like a great performance. You forgot about that, Hats Off!!!

This is one of those movies that should have stopped at two and never had any further installments. They are just too perfect

I'd honestly be more interested to learn about the making of Home Alone 2. There are no special features of any kind in the box set I have and it'd be interesting to hear from the production team considering the film is entirely made up up equivalency scenes. It would've been more interesting if ALL the McAllister kids got separated from the two sets of parents and had to become a sort of family unit that relied on each other.

Every John Hughes movie has one common thing: bunch of deleted scenes.

As with anything with John Hughes, it’s always interesting to see all this behind the scenes stuff for lost versions of his film. Also, I wanna make a recommendation for almost cult classics, or forgotten failures. 1994 Toys Starring Robin Williams. This is become one of his forgotten films and also a hard film to track down. It’s streams know where there is no Blu-ray of it and DVD copies are extremely hard to fine. I 100% believe that this would make a great addition to your series

What's interesting about that Candy and O'Hara cut scene is historically Czechs are very good at making crystal. Maybe that's why it was cut, because the joke is it's tacky but it actually doesn't sound tacky at all. Maybe it came up in improv because it's something John or his wife actually bought. It sounds like a really nice Christmas decoration.

I like the "humanized" Wet Bandits. It really shows that anyone of us could be those guys in the wrong circumstance.

This is very interesting material to see. I've never seen much behind-the-scenes footage of Home Alone, despite it being one of my favorite movies. It's actually kind of surreal after all these years. Still, Home Alone is perfect just the way it is. The cut material really shows how tightly-written the final film is. I'll always love Home Alone 1 and 2 for their cozy, nostalgic display of childhood wonder during the holidays and clever foreshadowing of elements that come into play throughout the climax. They are true masterpieces that captured lightning in a bottle, and my holidays just wouldn't be the same without them.

RIP John Heard. You were a fine actor.

Just watched it on Disney + the other day, still a Christmas classic!

These lost versions of John hughes movies are amazing. Thank you for this I was waiting for Home Alone!

Let's get a petition going for an uncut version of Home Alone!

9:17 the man is supposed to be the store manager and was played by Richard J. Firther. I don’t remember what video it was on but he commented on KZfaq several years ago on why he got cut from the film. You can still see him in the background behind the glass in the final film however.

I feel bad for the grocery story manager who got cut. You know he told everyone he knows he was gonna be in a big John Hughs movie that year 😬

This was great. I’ve seen this movie countless times and never saw the extra scenes of the bandits singing in the van and discussing more of their backgrounds. Definitely gonna subscribe. Great work my friend

Another Home Alone video! 😁

There were scenes cut from Home Alone 2 as well, yet none of those deleted scenes have emerged as of today. I really wish they will realise them one day on a special edition DVD of Home Alone 2.

It’s probably wise that they left out any scenes that humanize Harry and Marv, but I also find them to be the most interesting characters of the films and was always wondering about their backstory. They could’ve been a part of a really funny spin off!

I covered this on my podcast, but it’s amazing that John Hughes was able to write his first draft script only in the course of a few days. He had that knack for most of his screenplays

This is how the Mandela effect happens a lot of the time. People see a scene in a movie and they know how it goes. they dont realize that they saw a scene, a clip, or even a frame that was released in a trailer, a deleted scene, or in a version of the movie they happened to catch on tv or in an ad. The cognitive dissonance is so sensational that we assume that there are parallel universes instead of realizing that different versions of media exist at different times for different reasons.

You never really travel back in time by consuming old media until you uncover the mysteries of what could have been during production. That’s when it truly hits you that there was once a time when said work of fiction - in this case, _Home Alone_ - didn’t yet exist.

R.I.P John Heard (Aka: Mr. Peter McCallister).

Home Alone was John Hughes Rosetta Stone of elevator pitches for a movie premise. It's so genuis in it's simplicity and deceptive in how it's hidden depths and profoundness contains multitudes. Translation: Hughes was so in the zone for a ten year stretch that he was writing a finished screenplay start to finish over a weekend. And it's the ones that turn out to be the iconoclastic films we know and are cemented in celluloid history. As the years turn into decades and generations changing of the guard have come to pass, it becomes more and more apparent just how much of a once in a lifetime find and national resource and treasure Macaulay Culkin was and is, and the utter miraculous discovery, timing, luck that played into him existing at the right moment in the zeitgeist and Hughes being present at this one given flash in time to preserve Mac forever in a movie vehicle fused with the 80s teen comedy legend's also one in a billion cinematic high concept, all-timer gimmick for the ages. This film is like bottled euphoria. It's infinitely joy-inducing and advised annual dosage is the recommended prescribed yearly allowance, by 4 out of 5 doctors. The 5th doctor is an quack and can keep the change, you filthy animal...

That's the sad thing about incredible films, There's so much cutting room floor content which is lost to time. Home Alone, Lord Of The Rings, Pulp Fiction, Planes Trains And Automobiles.

Of all the deleted scenes, I really wish they kept the singing bit. Yes I kinda get not wanting to humanize the bad guys too much but, they are still silly. We even see them checking the toys at that one house they rob, so them singing isn’t that unrealistic

Thank you for your videos! I really enjoy them and you've covered many of my favorite movies!

I read the novelization of this movie recently. The scene with Harry and Marv talking in the van about how people take off for Christmas was in that book.

Yet more proof John Candy was an absolute treasure we all lost too soon.

I’m always so impressed and love the amount of work you put into Lost Versions, there so informative and fun to watch

I love these videos, man. So much I had no idea about. Thank you.

This is the time of the year to watch the two movies, two of my favorite movies since I was a kid. Thanks for this insight! I'd love to see a director's cut type of thing someday!

Quality work as always, and I can only agree: More John Candy footage is always a treat!

Kinda surprised you didn't mention the radio announcement from the trailer, even if it's a little obvious that was recorded just for the trailer. But man, I realize what a treasure Candy was, but I'm amazed he improvised all that. I mean, the funeral home story? That's impressive

this is GOLD for a big fan like me, thank you for your hard work, Merry Christmas!

It’s amazing just how much stuff was removed either in rewrites or in the editing of the films that John Hughes wrote, produced and/or directed. Thanks for the video Joe, Home Alone is my favorite Christmas film and this just helps with my fondness of the film. Keep up the great work!

Home Alone, I loved it then when I watched it for the first time and to this day I still love watching now. I have worked in the film industry for almost 24yrs now and watching the BTS of this production I can see that they had a blast and had a great time on set. I my self have worked on many productions and I understand when cast and crew can say we are family. 🙂

I mean, if you have John Candy on the set, why not use him for more scenes. How I miss him. 😊

I like to imagine that Kate McCallister became a fan of polka music thanks to Gus doing her a solid and giving her a ride back home.

Such great research! I saw this at the cinema when it came out. Thanks for the alternative cut!!!

my hats off to you for doing this man :) Merry Christmas and warm up with a lovely cheese pizza, just for you ;)

The grocery store manager is still there in the movie. Look behind the cashier's head. He's counting money. @9:37

I love the scenes between Marv and Harry that were cut. I figured they were cut because they slowed the pace down too much. I don't think it humanizes them at all. It's the kind of irony that increases their level of stupidity and insanity. I mean, watching them get seriously injured by a "kindigart'nuh" was more like watching an old Road Runner cartoon. That's the level I took it as. Frankly, they were a kind of stand-in for Kevin's family who got humanized way more and you still ended up thinking they were jerks. "What kind of mother am I?" and we all scream at the screen, "A terrible one!"

Thanks Joe! This video is a wonderful Xmas Treat. Home Alone is one of the first movies I saw in a theater and it holds a special place in my heart. I can’t describe how fulfilling it is to find out about what we didn't see in the movie. On that note, would you be able to do a video on the Lost Version of Ferris Bueller's Day Off? The first trailer likewise contains cut material and characters, and having read one of the scripts there's some great omitted stuff. All the best and Merry Xmas!

I already can't stand the McCallisters, but you could almost argue that the treatment we're seeing is fueled by holiday stress. With the stuff that was cut, you'd have a pretty solid argument that the McCallisters are just abusive normally.

You can see the "Mysterious Trailer Guy" in the background behind the glass behind the cashier in the final film.

I recently heard there was an early draft where it was discovered that Uncle Frank was the mastermind behind the wet bandits. The idea being he was heavily in debt and jealous of his rich brother. This is probably where a lot of his cheapness and dickishness came from in the writing, so it would make sense when revealed. While part of me loves this I'm glad it wasn't kept.

Such a classic. It’s weird seeing deleted scenes for a movie I’ve seen hundreds of times, but none of those removed scenes were anything worth keeping.

It's too bad that John Candy was never in a Christopher Guest film.

I remember at the end of the Home Alone 2 VHS there was a little commercial for American Airlines talking about how that was the company they used to fly the cast and crew from Chicago to New York. Back when we used VHS tapes a lot of times you'd watch the whole thing so they could add a little ad at the end like that. I just thought it was a cool little detail

A manager asking questors makes much more sense then some random cashier.

0:58 Technically, that guy IS in the movie. You can see him in the background in the same scene in the final cut.

I don't know why but I love watching these kind of videos.

John Candy character could have been Del Griffith instead of the polka player. He could've teach Kevin's mom some lesson that he learned on his movie and show that Del is living a happy life on the road again.

I love that ending scene with Harry and marv in jail, I wish it was in the final cut.

I’m hoping we get an extended cut of this movie for Christmas Time Next Year like we had the 75 minutes of deleted scenes that we got for Planes, Trains and Automobiles. It would be a great Christmas present.

This is great I love stuff Like this. ThAnk you! U got my subscription

Great video as always. Merry Christmas :)

Amazing. One of my favorite films. We need it!

Wow, I didn't think I could despise Uncle Frank anymore than I already did-- those excised scenes were brutal!!

Awesome job love it man

I really enjoy the deleted scenes but the finished product is just perfectly paced and put together so well.

Hi Joe! I have recently discovered your channel, and I am loving the contact so far! It would be really neat to see a video on “Army of Darkness”. I say that because there are so many different cuts of that movie floating around, and it would be cool to see how all those different versions came to be.

This idiots and gentlemen is the BEST Christmas movie! Nothing compares to John Hughes.

This is always been one of my favourite movies to watch around Christmas

the scene where Uncle Frank pulls down Kevin's pants is inappropriate for a family movie which is why they deleted it

Excellent video. Thanks!

was anyone else very sad that kate and gus didnt stay friends? that actually hurt me as a kid. they were so nice to eachother and they couldve been very good friends for life. not even in the second film did he come back.. what if it was the same person from planes trains and automobiles but the next year or something? it adds depth thinking, as a kid, it was the same guy and this guy is trying to make connections and its just gone just like that

Great video. Thanks for sharing.

You should do a version of The Great Outdoors that John Hughes script is fascinating, many more scenes and dialogue and little subplots. The trailer also has added moments, a couple deleted scenes from the TV version were released on KZfaq recently. I've been obsessed with lost footage lately myself.

Awesome review I like keep up the good work!

Cool!! HOWEVER, most of the deleted scenes can be found on the BLU Ray version.

I think that it was wise of the film makers to leave out the scenes that made Uncle Frank out to be an even bigger creep than he already was, otherwise, he might have been less sympathetic than Harry and Marv. On the other hand, a few of the deleted scenes around the wet bandits might have made them less one-dimensional.

Huge fan. Watch every episode! Just need to mention this so I can sleep at night. You say “hence why” from time to time; but saying “hence” already means “thats why” as it is. So no meed to say both. Just “hence” will cover it. Thanks, love the show!

Been recently binging the Home Alone series (and by that I mean just the first 2 films). Seeing all this is just adding to my experience. Also it’s good to know Frank was just an asshole to everyone and not just Kevin

This is super. Just found your channel. Thanks YT algorithms. Stellar job if I were wearing a hat I’d take it off to you good sir. May you have the most blessed year of your life.

Fun fact: In the first draft there was a very extensive nightmare sequence Kevin has where the family is on the television and Kate with a very warm smile tells Kevin that they are wherever he wished them away to. “It’s sort of like heaven but we don’t know for sure.” “Honey it wasn’t your fault that we went away. you didn’t know what you were saying. I hope it doesn’t ruin your Christmas honey.” And then all the objects in the house come to life and chase Kevin with Kevin even being crushed into a present and the furnace crashing through the roof and tossing Kevin into the night as he wakes up. And yes this is real.

I've always wanted to see the footage of Daniel Roebuck playing Marv after Daniel Stern left. Just to see how he and Pesci were together and how casting can make a huge difference.

Merry Christmas, Joe. :D

Awesome Vid man Home Alone is Much a FAV

Great video, esp loved the additional content with the Wet Bandits - my favorite part of the first movie. I'm not saying they're sympathetic, they're clearly villains but I always did empathize with them a little bit. Maybe it's from being a lifelong D&D player and watching them maneuver around Kevin's 'house of horrors' looking for loot strikes a familiar chord. Besides, while they are clearly robbing families they're not doing anything too diabolical like, say, robbing charity money for a children's hospital or anything... ...yeah, Sticky Bandits is over the line for me, lol.

Love the Uncle Buck scene cut in! One of my favorite!

This is impressive. Subscribed. You should do one about Home Alone 2.