sentences:  On the advice of film mogul David O. Selznick, who believed American audiences might get the impression that Britain was overrun with spies, "Next of Kin's" director, Thorold Dickinson, made drastic cuts to the film's original running time, while adding two short excerpts from a J. Edgar Hoover speech as a framing device for a new running time of about 75 minutes.This truncated version of the film was used exclusively for its American release.It is also the version released on DVD in America by Alpha Video.