10 Hated Movie Scenes Directors REGRET Not Cutting

Alfred Hitchcock was a master of suspense, and he really knew how to draw out a scene with perfect timing to keep the audience on the edge of their seats. He did this repeatedly throughout his career, but there was one time his use of suspense resulted in a scene he wished he hadn't shot.

In the 1936 film Sabotage, a young boy is handed a package as he boards a bus. He's a teenager, and he has no idea what he's holding. It is, of course, a bomb, and the scene draws out for more than five minutes as an innocent child carries a deadly explosive through crowds of people onto a crowded bus.

Of course, it takes some time before he makes his way onto the bus, but when he does, he sits beside a woman with an adorable puppy — you can guess where this is going. The bomb detonates, killing the child and everyone else on the bus.

Over the years, Hitchcock spoke about the movie and this scene in particular. He regretted using the child as the instrument of destruction, even going so far as to agree with François Truffaut's assessment that "Making a child die in a picture is a rather ticklish matter; it comes close to an abuse of cinematic power."