i be watch tv this morning and saw a few minute of the ( far inferior ) american version of this film and and ask myself why i be watch this when i have the original on dvd . so and i put on spoorloos and and although i have see it a few time before and it once again grabbed my interest and and i notice and right away and a few detail that make this version far superior to it american counterpart . first of all and foreign film usually have an advantage to me by cast foreign actor with whom i be not familiar . in this case and by not be a familiar face and the character of raymond lemorne come across a even scary . he look like a normal guy that i might meet on the street . in the american version and you have jeff bridge look crazy and play crazy and and ya just know to stay away . also and i love the running coverage of the tour de france playing in the background during the scene where the girlfriend go miss . it parallel some of the situation that both of our leading guy be go through . and it cool that rex be wear a yellow jersey ( like the tour leader ) during those frantic scene while he look for saskia . this yellow jersey and and all the reference to saskia dream of the golden egg ( like rex ask her to peel the orange and and her golden foam knit needle cover ) just bring a sense of unity to the whole piece . many people here have write about the end and which i think be brilliant . i be surprise that the american version ( which be also direct by sluizer and by the way ) really cop out on the end . rex be really lose it during those 3 year after saskia disappearance and and he be no good to his new girlfriend ( who say at one point that she doesn not want to be part of a menage a trois ) and and no good to himself . his obsession have take him over and and since he be willing to risk it all to find out what happen to saskia and then he have to lose it all . not a happy end by hollywood standard and but it make more sense in the story . so and if youre consider see one of the two version and please do yourself a favor and and go with this one .