Back To The Future Part III Deleted Scene - The Tannen Gang Kill Marshall Strickland (1990) Movie HD

Back To The Future Part III Deleted Scene - The Tannen Gang Kill Marshall Strickland (1990) Movie HD

A teenager is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his friend, Dr. Emmett Brown, and must make sure his high-school-age parents unite in order to save his own existence.

[RjRedKing]

That explains why Strickland hates Tannans

[JasonL]

I'm glad this scene was cut. The producers explained in the audio commentary that the reason why it was cut was because there would be no way for Buford Tannen to live after this scene. Not only does he kill Marshal Strickland, he killed Strickland in front of Strickland's own boy. There's no way to justify not killing Tannen after doing something that heinous.

[crisytswag]

Now I understand why another sheriff appears when Bufford Tannen loses the duel with Marty

[axelfoley]

I wonder if this is why Marshal Strickland had a sense of fun, encouraging everyone to party, while his descendants were 100% focused on discipline and never turned it off. They learned the discipline, but showing any weakness or letting your guard down could get you killed.

The marshal also seemed to be a more decent, loving man compared to the cold nature of the superintendent at Marty's school.

[samuelbarber]

I can see why this scene was cut. It has no bearing on the plot apart from explaining why the deputy arrested him instead of the Marshal. It also would drastically alter the film's tone from then on as it then just goes back to being a fun time travel comedy. It also irrevocably changes Buford's character as from this point, an on screen murder, in front of a child no less would really make people want to see Marty shoot him. They didn't want to include cold blooded murder in a Back to the Future film either, the first film did include Doc getting shot by terrorists and the second had a grim nightmare world that 1985 had devolved into, though the difference there was that both events had been erased from time in the course their respective movies. Seeing Buford making jokes like forgetting how to count to ten or not knowing what the word forfeit means just wouldn't go with what happened here. It's like watching Bambi and suddenly putting on a video of a real horse exploding, it just distracts. On top of that, the acting is wooden and there is no emotion from the kid playing Mr Strickland's dad here.

[trekguy]

"Discipline?" That's the last thing he wants to say his child before he dies?

[Sharkie]

So.... I am guessing the son here would be Principal Strickland's father?

[VerneditheSnail]

No wonder it seemed strange how Strickland's father suddenly disappeared from the movie halfway through.

[Voorhees]

This is pretty dark for a series like Back to the Future. Sure, people have died, but it was always fixed & reversed via time travel. Like Doc Brown in Part 1 & George McFly in Part 2.

[MCFPapa]

Pretty dark scene, but it explains why Hall Monitor Strickland had such an obsession with discipline (his ancestor lacked the discipline to stand up to Mad Dog and got killed for it) and why at the end of the movie Mad Dog gets arrested by a different Marshall than Strickland

[sergiorodriguezgarcia]

When I saw the movie I was asked why Sheriff Strickland did not show up at Tannen's detention.

[acerumble]

Respect to the movie makers for attempting to offer a scene where the audience sees why Marshal Strickland doesn't stop Tannen and Marty's showdown, and even more respect for being smart enough to delete it. While the Trilogy has never shied away from gun violence, this would have destroyed the atmosphere that had been carefully crafted up to this point.

[FuzzyPuppet]

Terrible scene! Good thing they cut it

[OpCharlieBravo]

Fun fact, the son eventually married and had 3 kids, one those kids started a company that sold propane to the rail road company for manufacturing, it's called Strickland Propane located in Arlen TX

[tece]

This scene was a reference to BTTF2 in 1985A when these drive-by-shooters try to kill Strickland

[shelbyvillerules]

Presumably the scene later on originally had the Deputy saying “Buford Tannen, you’re under arrest for the murder of Marshall Strickland” which is why it edits to a different shot and they ADR’d in “Pine City stage”

[ToiletClogger]

" remember son... no McFly has ever amounted to anything...in the history of...Hill Valley. UuGggHhh "

[ishirotanaka]

Even though this scene was cut from the movie for being too dark for what was considered a family movie, It was retained in the film’s novelization. So when the deputy shows up to arrest Buford, he wasn’t arresting him for robbing the pine city stage, but actually for the murder of martial Strickland.

[RoosterMontgomery]

No wonder Strickland has it in for Tannen in the future.

[frenchieseverine]

I'm glad they deleted this scene..This isn't funny at all and Biff and his gang shooting at Marshall make another dead man..The boy learns that discipline =kill..yuck!