I can't get enough of these deleted scenes Firecracker-it prolongs the brilliance.The extended SE GBU has done the unthinkable-made the best film ever made BETTER!
Yeah, but you could still have had the reveal of Villega as the traitor, and saved the torture scene for a flashback. I would have liked this, actually, because we would have had both the shock of the discovery and later a scene that would have re-established our sympathy for the doctor. Of course, Leone pretty much did that with the scene between Villega and Mallory on the train at the end, so the torture scene wasn't absolutely necessary. But torture is an important element of the betrayal theme, and I think an audience better appreciates the issue when they've had their faces shoved in it.
Why not do what Monty Python did with the Meaning Of Life dvd,they had the directors cut with newly inserted scenes under the special features.
See if you could find the deleted scene in this:
These scenes will never be part of the film, simply because they don't exist anymore, and where never seen in the film anyway. It's long enough as it is in its 157 minute version.