Released when R18 guidelines were a little more liberal

Unofficial pre-cuts

• Kozure Ôkami: Shinikazeni mukau ubaguruma
• Baby Cart
• Lend a Child
• Lend an Army
• Lightning Swords of Death
• Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades
• Lupine Wolf
• Sword of Vengeance, Part III

Cut when submitted in 1999

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from Amazon US

This is the third of the six films starring Tomisaburo Wakayama as the assassin for hire and Akihiro Tomikawa as his cub. Father and son continue along the Assassin's Road and there are three episodes from the manga that constitute major sections of the film.

The first major section is from Wandering Samurai (#46), where a mother and daughter are brutally raped by a group of "Watari-kashi," who murder their escort. When Magomura Kanbei (Go Kato) shows up and see what has happened he kills the women and then makes the assailants draw lots so that he can kill one of them, who will then be blamed for the atrocity.

We move directly to the second major section, which adapted The Virgin and the Whore (#18). A young peasant woman who has been sold into prostitution kills her pimp when he tries to take advantage of her. Lone Wolf and Cub are staying at the same inn and when she tries to hide in their room, she comes under Ogami Itto's protection. The "Boohachimono" that run the brothel want to punish her, but our hero refuses to allow it and agrees to take her place instead when their leader, Torizo (Yuko Hamada), demands satisfaction. He is then subjected to the punishment of being repeatedly dunked upside down in a tub of water and then being beaten black and blue by bamboo sticks. As a result the young girl is given her freedom.

This becomes a set up for the big fight at the end, as Torizo sets up Ogami Itto with an Elder who wants to hire the assassin Lone Wolf. Unfortunately our hero has a prior commitment, which requires the assembling of dozens of samurai and other warriors to try and take down Lone Wolf and Cub. The set up is slightly different, but the battle is essentially what we have in The Yagyu Letter (#50). This has to be the climax for the film because you can count the number of people still alive in the film on the fingers of one hand.

I know these movies were edited and dubbed into Shogun Assassin in 1980, but the original sextet of films is:

1. Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
2. Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx
3. Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades
4. Lone Wolf and Cub: In Peril
5. Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Land of Demons
6. Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell

• Mistaken Identity

Softcore version with 34s of additional cuts with BBFC comment: Distributor was required to make one compulsory cut to sight of wax dripped on genitals in line with the current interpretation of the Obscene Publications Act 1959. Two other cuts were required to explicit sexual activity (unsimulated oral-genital contact)  [for an 18 certifcate].

The uncut region 0 DVD is available at Adult Video Universe

• Twin Sitters

Cut by the BBFC when submitted in 1995

Thanks to Bleach on the Melon Farmers Forum:

• At 32 mins - The finding of two little boys in joke hanging was reduced by removing initial long shots and close ups of faces, resuming on long shots of twins in doorway with boys` feet dangling foreground.
• At 38 mins - In scene by swimming pool, all close ups of coiled orange cable, plug-in socket, cable uncurling, and plug pulled out of socket were removed.
• At 66 mins - Shot of black gloved hands twisting and banging man`s head against balustrade was removed.
• At 79 mins - After oriental twins kick man behind them, the attack with repeated kicks on two other men was removed, resuming on corridor shot.
• At 81 mins - When black twins take turns to punch man in face, blows were reduced to one punch only.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Previous BBFC cuts waived when resubmitted in 2004. This is now the full uncut version as was banned by the BBFC in 1994

The presumably uncut region 0 DVD is available via UK Amazon

Originally rejected by the BBFC in 1994. It was passed later in 1994 after extensive cutting

The distributors resubmitted the video shorn of 7.5 minutes of the most brutal violence, after which a further 1.5 minutes was cut by the Board, removing most of the remaining kicks to the head and face, the smashing of heads against walls, floors and pillars, the biting of ears and glamorising of weaponry.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to remove explicit sight of vaginal penetration with man's fingers, fellatio and sight of liquid resembling semen on woman's face

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Compulsory. Cut required to sight of dangerous and imitable behaviour (a wrestler using a scarf to strangle an opponent during a wrestling match)

Cuts were waived when resubmitted in 2007

The uncut region 2 DVD can be ordered at UK Amazon

Cut by 3s for the cinema version and 20s for video. The BBFC site suggests that the cuts were the same for both versions so perhaps different implementations of the required cut.

From DVD Times:

The BBFC cut one shot, nine minutes in: Bubby is sitting in a chair, tugging at a string which is around his cat’s neck. The cat seems to be resisting, which is presumably why the BBFC considered that it was distressed, making the shot fall foul of the Animals Act.

This cut unfortunately removed the following dialogue:
Bubby: Where cat from?
Mother: Outside.

This blurred a plot point, as this was the first indication that there is an “outside”.

22:00s unofficial pre-cuts and a further 35s cut by the BBFC

The 2003 video release was cut by the BBFC with the following comment: Compulsory cut to remove dangerous imitable technique

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Passed uncut in 2003

1. Rape of the nun: cut: scene where nun's pants are removed revealing pubic hair.
2. Injecting heroin: cut: close-up of Zoe Lund's arm as she injects herself.
3. Injecting heroin: cut: Keitel drinking as he watches Zoe.
4. Injecting heroin: cut: another shot of Zoe's arm with the needle in it.
5. Injecting heroin: cut: close up of Zoe's face.
6. Injecting heroin: cut: Zoe drawing liquid from spoon. (still present in the trailer!)
7. Injecting heroin: 31s replaced by crude dissolve: Zoe injects Keitel.

Led Zepplin threatened legal action against a track sounding slightly like "Kashmir". The offending song has been removed from 4 points in the video.

1. Street drug dealing just before Keitel arrives to buy crack: now no music at all.
2. Nun's rape originally to backing track "signifying rapper": now church organ music.
3. Long tracking shot following Keitel into the hospital: now no music at all.
4. End credits: now have Abel Ferrara himself singing.

Bad Lieutenant is banned completely in Ireland. If you are thinking of buying it in the US beware of a butchered R rated version prepared especially for our moral guardians at Blockbuster Video. Uncut Region 1 NC-17 version available at Amazon

Shown uncut on Carlton Cinema

• Fuck Me
• Rape Me

10s were cut from the cinema version and an additional 2s were removed from the video.

Contains hardcore segments even after being censored with the following BBFC justification for the cinema version: Cut required to an explicit close-up shot of a penis penetrating a vagina during a violent rape sequence.

And for the video: Cuts required to two sequences of sexual violence involving strong sexual imagery (explicit close up of sexual penetration of woman during rape scene; sight of gun being pressed into man's anus prior to being fired)

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to make cuts to remove sight of bloody injuries and weapons

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to remove sight of clearly unsimulated oral-genital contact and digital penetration

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to make three cuts to unsimulated sexual activity

Cuts waived when resubmitted in 2004

Cuts were made to the cinema version to achieve a 15 certificate, these have now been restored.

Several minutes have been added during the opening scene, and show Pamela Anderson being hosed down while dancing.

• Queen of the Naked Steel

• Barbarian Queen 2:  The Empress Strikes Back

• Frauengefängnis
• Caged Women
• Women's Penitentiary IV

Censorship is alive and well at the British Board of Film Censors. Real sex  was banned from this film without any justification whatsoever. The cut scene is neither obscene nor harmful yet its removal was compulsory. Surely this is an abuse of our human rights to free speech. It is simply not good enough to say that real sex cannot be shown because the film does not qualify as a sex work.

The censors cut this video when submitted in 2004 with the following statement: Cuts required to remove explicit sight of sexual activity (digital penetration) in order to achieve an 18 classification. An R18 uncut was not available for this non-sex work.

The explicit imagery was not deemed to have a sufficient narrative justification in the Jess Franco work Barbed Wire Dolls, which blurred the line between erotic drama and sex work.

The BBFC kindly provided a further clarification:

According to our Guidelines, you cannot show unsimulated sex at '18' if it is a 'sex work' (ie a work whose main purpose is to sexually arouse). Real sex in a 'sex work' makes it 'R18'. However, this Jess Franco film is not a 'sex work'.

According to our Guidelines, explicit real sex may only be shown at '18' if (i) it is not a sex work (see above) and (ii) the sex is exceptionally justified by context.

In this case the Board did not feel that the explicit sex was exceptionally justified by context so it was not judged acceptable at '18'. Of course, the explicit sex could have been permitted at 'R18' on its own. However, an 'R18' without cuts was not a realistic option in this case, not so much because it wasn't a sex work  but because the violence and sexual violence that we permitted at '18' would not be permissible at 'R18'. So, if we had permitted the explicit sex at 'R18' (which we could have) we would have had to make additional cuts for 'R18' (to violence and sexual violence) that would not have been required at '18'.

In practice I agree that the possibility of censorship due to  my observation above is unlikely because no distributor of a DVD like Barbed Wire Dolls  wants to be restricted to sex shop sales. However I would like to point out that there is a theoretical hole in the VRA whereby a Die Hard type action film with an explicit, loving and arousing sex scene would have to be censored without justification of harm or illegality.

13:00s unofficial pre-cuts with a further 7:49s cut by the BBFC

On top of all the usual precuts the BBFC insisted on further cuts:

• A lesbian scene in a men's toilet was much reduced just because it focused on two women giving head for too long.
• A little while later the BBFC did a lot of snipping to ensure that a three way scene only showed two people. The BBFC think that it is a sin to have sex with more than two people. What on earth can be the justification for such a policy?

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to make cuts to clearly unsimulated sexual activity, oral sex and penetrative sex, to achieve an 18 certificate. An uncut R18 was available to the distributor.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to cut for an 18 category explicit sexual detail,

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to make cuts to remove clearly unsimulated sexual activity, oral sex and penetration,

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to cut sight of clearly unsimulated sexual activity

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. The distributor chose to make 4 cuts to clearly unsimulated sexual activity (cunnilingus, penetration and ejaculate on the face) in order to gain an 18 certificate. An R18 was available to the distributor.

Passed uncut in 2000

47s cut by the distibuter.

Dream sequence where kids are shot in school was removed by the distributor in response to the Dunblane massacre.

Famous for being one of the slightly hardcore R18 videos that caught the attention of the press

Thanks to Frosby. There are no BBFC cuts so perhaps the cut was made by the distributor:

I have seen both Region's 1 and 2 of this film and found at cut of about 5 to 10 seconds where George Clooney and Arnie tug and tussle for Mr Freeze's ice weapon, Clooney says to Mr Freeze didn't your mother ever tell you not to play with guns and cuts straight to batman lifting freeze in the air with the barrel of the gun.

From SBBFC

The sound editing was altered following a BBFC 'advice viewing'. The sounds of crunchy implied headbutts were reduced to lessen the impact of the violence which enabled the work to be granted a 12A certificate.

Thanks to Gavin

My friends and I checked with the BBFC and the film is definitely NOT cut in any way. The info on SBBFC is incorrect. Just to be clear - the UK version is NOT edited, and all sound effects are loud and clear. I have also compared the waveforms of the R2 DVD to the R1 edition and they are identical.

The cuts were waived when resubmitted in November 2005 for a 12 certificate

Same cuts to cinema and video versions up to 1997

Thanks to Gavin & Rewind for the following cuts list. Voluntary cuts by the distributor to ensure a PG rather than a 12 rating.

• A shot of a cutting torch being picked up just after the main logo is missing.
• Two Face's reply after the guard says “You said you'd let me live” is missing Nothing better than live bait to trap a bat!
• After the “punctual funeral” line, Two Face shouting Kill the Bat! has been removed from the soundtrack and replaced with music and guards grunting
• When the elevator dings just before Batman exits, Two Face’ shout of “Blast him!” is not present in the UK version.
• The fight outside the elevator has lost a lot of sound effects, as well as a sequence where Batman drops his leg sharply onto a thug’s chest, complete with a loud thud
• Batman delivering a backward headbutt and breaking a thug’s nose in extreme close-up has been removed
• Close-ups of kicks to midriffs and faces are also missing
• Two Face’ lines in the helicopter about the acid have been removed
• In the sequence where the helicopter pilot is killed, Two Face emptying an entire clip into the helicopter pilot has been trimmed, along with shots showing the bullets riddling the pilot’s body from the front. The cut UK version has only three shots fired, and the pilot is shown slumping from behind
• The death of Nygma’s boss does not show him stopping on the window ledge, and hanging in terror, before Nygma runs over and says Fred, babe! You are fired! Or should I say...terminated? With this, he pulls the hat off him and he falls down, but this is all cut from the UK print
• Two Face’ line in the circus big top is cut from the UK version – Our new act for your personal amazement; we call it - Massacre Under The Big Top!
• A shot of Nygma laughing at the above line is also missing
• When the Mayor asks what Two Face wants at the circus, his reply is shortened from Batman. Bruised, broken, bleeding. In a word, dead! to simply Batman
• The UK version is missing the sequence where Bruce Wayne kills one guard on the right side of the big drum by coming up behind him, breaking his neck, and smacking him in the face as he falls
• When Two Face flips his coin before killing the Graysons, after his evil laugh he goes on to say Their kind of day, which is missing in the UK version
• As the bomb is raised through the roof of the circus, a quick sequence of Bruce flipping a guard over and kicking him hard in the gut is missing
• When Two Face accidentally kills two of his men in the car, their screams have been cut short in the UK version, and a shot of the driver’s terrified face has been removed
• The fight at Nygma’s party loses some impact sounds
• Shortly after this, Batman makes a guard do the splits and another crack accompanies this, but the sound has virtually been eliminated from the soundtrack
• A small crack has been greatly reduced in volume as Batman twists a thug’s arm backwards
• Robin throwing Two Face a vicious headbutts after the line, “This is for me!” has been replaced in the UK version, by removing the punch Robin throws after he says This is for my brother! and reinserting in place of the headbutt

The uncut region 1 DVD is available from US Amazon

A 2005 video version was downgraded to 12 with cuts justified as follows: Compulsory cut required to remove a potentially dangerous imitable technique

Presumably the chainsticks cut has been waived but the aerosol in the microwave cut remains

(Note that the DVD still carries a 15 rating due to DVD extras being 15 rated)

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Thanks to Adam:

The version playing on FilmFour (Oct 2007) is uncut and shows Catwoman putting a couple of aerosols in a microwave.

The 1992-94 cinema and video versions were the same cut version and were rated 12 for cinema and 15 for video

• Catwoman places an aerosol in a microwave but not in the UK version as we may be stupid enough to copy this idea.
• A clown swinging on chainsticks during in attack on Batman has also suffered. The BBFC refuse to allow the sight of chainsticks regardless of their usage.

• The Big Brawl
• Battle Creek
• Sha shou hao

Cut in 2001 with the following BBFC statement: Cut required to sight of dangerous imitable technique (double ear clap)

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Company chose to remove some uses of derogatory language referring to mental and physical disability for PG category

• Batoru rowaiaru II: Chinkonka
• Batoru rowaiaru II: Rekuiemu
• Battle Royale II
• Battle Royale II: Requiem

I think the 8s of cuts can be discounted:

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: One cut was required to remove the Japanese text and English subtitle which state: "This film is restricted to aged 15 and over," in order to avoid confusion.

The region 0 DVD is available at UK Amazon

Review from imdb

This is a terrible movie. Remove the intelligent satire and add a completely shoddy script, then make the movie drag past two hours so you get bored an hour into it. The original was smart, brutal and even had moments of humour. It was exciting to the end. BR2 has NOTHING remotely close - even the violence was predictable. What a waste. A real mess. You've been warned.

• Battlefield Earth: A saga of the year 3000

All cinema and video versions to 2001 have been cut to remove the sight of a head butt.

• Antefatto
• Bloodbath
• Bloodbath Bay of Death
• Bloodbath Bay of Blood
• Twitch of the Death Nerve
• Carnage
• Before the Fact: Ecology of a Crime
• The Ecology of a Crime
• L'Ecologia del Delitto
• Reazione a Catena
• Before the Fact
• Last House on the Left Part 2
• New House on the Left

The BBFC refused this a cinema certificate in 1972. Prior to the Video Recording Act, it was released uncut on the Hoshukin video label. It then became cited on the video nasty list. Redemption released it on video (18 cert) in 1994 with 7 BBFC cuts totalling 43s:

1. The first murder of a teenage girl loses 2s in 2 cuts, the first of her throat being cut from behind and the other of a graphic hatchet blow to the head.
2. 21s (nearly the entire scene) is cut from a boy dying with a machete embedded in his face.
3. 3 cuts totally 9s diminish the death of couple impaled with a spear whilst making love. We love the blood welling from the wounds and their writhing whilst impaled.
4. 11s has been cut from the death of Simon being forced up a wall by a spear impaled in his stomach.

The uncut Spanish versions runs at 81:08s

The uncut region 0 DVD is available from US Amazon

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Compulsory., The cuts were Cuts for Category. Cuts required to change incorrect classification ratings accompanying advertised features. Additionally the company has chosen to cut three trailers featuring horror and violence not appropriate for PG. These trailers could have been retained at a 12 classification

Thanks to Sic

Cut in 2001 to obtain a PG

A headbutt was cut (13.45s in)from the start of a fight between cheetor & Black Arachnia because it's a dangerous technique of course I'm sure the subsequent series of punchs and kicks to the side of the head are perfectly safe.

• The opening & closing rape scenes are missing glimpses of the women's breasts and of bloodied bodies
• Michael's (Paul Clemens) attack on Edwin (Logan Ramsey) is missing the shot of the killer quivering as he gnaws into the victim's throat.
• A shot of Edwin's mangled body is missing when it is discovered by the Judge (Don Gordon).
• Michael snarls at the camera with a bloodied mouth during a flashback that is missing.
• Eventually the Judge gets his head ripped off but we don't get to see the blood pouring out nor the head rolling off the neck stump.

Thanks to Haydn

The cinema release was cut in 2007 with the following BBFC comment: The distributor was required to make one cut, in a film aimed at younger viewers, of a potentially dangerous and easily imitated technique involving materials that are readily available in the average household (specifically, turning household items into a flame thrower). An uncut classification was not available to the distributor.

The film was released with the aerosol replaced by a harmless shower-head.

The 2006 video/DVD version was passed uncut with an 18 rating

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

The cinema version was cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Distributor chose to remove scene of sexualised asphyxiation in order to achieve the requested '15'. An uncut '18' was available'.

The BBFC explained further in their 2006 Annual Report:

The film contained a brief, comic sex scene that included sight of a man being asphyxiated with a plastic bag. The clear detail, together with the potential for harm amongst teen viewers for whom the dangers of sexual asphyxiation might not be clear, seemed to warrant an ‘18’ certificate.

But as Kirei points out, the same scene would perversely be banned from an R18 film.

Cinema version 2001 and all video versions to 2001 have been cut with the following BBFC comment: Compulsory cut required to sight of real animal cruelty (live bird caught in noose)

• Interieur d'un Couvent
• Interno di un convento
• Sex Life in a Convent
• Within a Cloister

Passed uncut in 2003 as Interieur d'un Couvent

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

Cuts for cinema in 1978 and then the cuts were maintained for the video version in 1996

Released when the R18 guidelines were a little more liberal

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to remove sexual detail (penetration of vagina by finger and dildo, penis shaft and oral-genital contact) in order to obtain an 18. An R18 uncut was available to the distributor

Interview with director Steve Perry: In the latest Ben Dover they censored 4 minutes out of it - all the sex basically! They said the thrusting was too vigorous. If the girl's making a face they say she's doing it against her will, but if she's smiling too much they say she's enjoying it too much. The BBFC also made cuts where there's about a tenth of a second where you could actually see a bit of the guys bollocks and therefore work out they were really doing it.

46:04s unofficial pre-cuts with a further 2s cut by the BBFC

• The Best of the Martial Arts Movies
• Deadliest Art: The Best of the Martial Arts Movies

No cuts listed by the BBFC but at the very end the narrator says: we've saved the best for last, here is Bruce Lee fighting with the deadly nunchaku in Enter the Dragon. The clip begins with Lee beating up a few of the guards, then he knocks one over in to some water and it fades out and ends, surprise, surprise, no nunchaku!

The import Region 0 DVD from Universe Laser & Video Co is uncut and available at AsianDiscs

2:58s pre-cut

• Fei hu jing ying zhi ren jian you qing

The import Region 0 DVD from Megastar (English subtitles) is uncut and available at AsianDiscs

An 'unabridged version' was submitted in 2005 without BBFC cuts.

It has all the nunchakus restored but is missing some shots of James throwing up when he is fighting Tommy, and the shot of James finger being blown off. About 5seconds cut. Both appear in the UK video. This seems to be the version shown on Sky

No BBFC cuts listed for the 1993 Entertainment in Video version so it appears that the video has suffered pre-cuts

The duel between Tommy (Philip Rhee) and the Asian, ponytailed gladiator has been severely shortened for the U.K prints.  A lengthy segment of the fight in which the gladiator uses two pairs of silver nunchakus is missing.

The scene lasts twice as long in the uncut version, which has been shown in the past on Sky. The version currently screening on Bravo, however, appears to be the same as the video except for an extra shot of James (Tommy's native brother) having his finger blown off - which isn't in Sky's print.

• The Best of the New York Film Festival

Cut on video when submitted in 1987

An explicit compilation of short films with just as strong scenes of sexual activity filmed during festival parties.

Thanks to Rustin Mann on The Melon Farmers' Forum

One of the shorts is directed by Penelope Spheeris. The story line is of a meek pharmacist hatching a plot to snag his loud sex-loving "hot" neighbour by making a simulated sex tape.

17:42s pre-cut and a further 1:12s cut by the BBFC

27:20s unofficial pre-cuts with a further 4:51s cut by the BBFC

13:54s pre-cut prior to submission

32:44s pre-cut with a further 2:55s vut by the BBFC

Cuts reduced to 3s when resubmitted in 2002. A double ear clap was removed so that the certificate would stay as a 12.

• L'Aldila
• Seven Doors of Death
• E tu Vivrai nel Terrore: L'Aldila

Finally passed uncut in January 2001

9 cuts totalling 1:39s were imposed for an X rated cinema release in 1981. Vampix released this X rated version on pre-VRA video and then had to suffer a listing on the banned video nasties list. Vipco finally got the video an 18 certificate without the need for further cuts.

• 18s have been cut from the prologue, ie the man being killed for witchcraft is missing several chain whippings, I have also heard that it is missing shots of his hands being nailed and his face melting after having acid thrown at it
• The eye gouging of a drainage mechanic has lost 6s of the gouging
• 4 cuts totalling 43s have been imposed on the attack of (very unconvincing) spiders on a librarian. These include shots of the spiders biting his lip, nose and tongue and also of them pulling his eye out.
• 5s has been cut from a cleaning lady being impaled on a nail through the eye.
• 26s are missing from the blind girl's throat being ripped out by a dog. this includes shots of blood gushing from the wounds and shots of her ear being bitten off.
• 1s is missing from a child's head exploding after a gunshot.

The uncut region 2 DVD is available from UK Amazon

Avoid the US version: 7 Doors of Death on Thriller Video it is almost as cut as the UK version.

Has been shown uncut on the French speaking RTL 9 channel.

No cuts required but looks to have suffered a few seconds of pre-cuts

A punch was removed from a fight scene.

Several shots of a twirling butterfly knife have been removed along with a few horse trippings.

• Hollywood Vixens

The cuts were waived when resubmitted in 2003

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

The CBS Fox Video was cut by 53s when submitted in 1989:

• New opening credits were required for this release, as the BBFC would not allow the shot of a gun being rubbed along breasts in the opening scene.
• Paul also suggests that a drug taking scene via a pipe may have been cut as it is about 50s

Review from Amazon UK

What more could one ask for? Valley of the Dolls took itself seriously with hilarious effects. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (supposedly not related) was more of a spoof that played straight with seriously hilarious effects. Both are camp classics and at this price, this DVD is nearly impossible to pass up.

Thanks to Mark:

The 2007 extended 'Family Fun' edition of Big has come out on UK DVD and is a 2 disc set like the region 1. It has both cuts of the film.

The previous cut to delete the word 'fuck' has been waived and the DVD is now 12 certificate uncut.

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

• A single 'fuck' has been cut from this otherwise family comedy to obtain a PG certificate.

Cut by 10 seconds to remove a sequence in which an animated version of God appeared to be having sex and then uttered an expletive.

BBFC cuts waived in 2000

Uncut region 2 available on UK Amazon

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Cuts for Category. Company chose to cut sight of vaginal penetration with finger for 18.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to cut scenes of unsimulated masturbation and close up shots of genital detail .

• Tang shan da xiong
• China Mountain Big Brother
• Fists of Fury
• Fists of Glory
• Tong saan daai fong

The cinema release was cut in 1974.

The video versions have never been listed as having being cut but on the British DVD version there is a feature-length commentary that states that the "handsaw-in-the-head scene" was included in the final cut of the Hong Kong version of the film, but the censors ordered it removed along with an extended scene of Bruce seeing the severed body parts in the ice and the family murdered. At the time the film was made, archiving footage was difficult and expensive, so the scenes do not exist any more.

Cinema release in 2000 and all video versions to 2001 cut with the following BBFC comment: Cuts for category. Company chose to cut moments of detailed violence in martial arts sequences.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

• Il Grande Racket
• Racket

Passed with cuts on video in 2002 with the following BBFC comment: Compulsory cuts were required to scenes of violent rape focusing on forcible breast exposure and female nudity

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from imdb

My interest in Italian cinema is usually limited to horror films, but I made an exception for this crime flick - and I'm certainly glad that I did! Actually, The Big Racket isn't a world away from the popular Italian Giallo styling, only instead of having a vicious murderer on the loose; we have a small town at the mercy of a group of organised thugs. For a film with this sort of plot, it's surprising just how good The Big Racket is. Italian films from the seventies have a bad reputation for not making a lot of sense, but not only does this one make sense - it benefits from a great, multi-angled story as well.

The film sees a bunch of criminals sabotaging local businesses and asking for protection money from the owners to make them stop. The police presence in the town is largely ineffective, with the exception of one man - Inspector Nico Palmieri.

The Big Racket benefits immensely from a strong leading performance courtesy of Fabio Testi. Testi's portrayal of the angry police officer is perfectly judged to fit the movie, and I don't think there is an actor who could be better suited to playing the lead in this movie.

The script is really good, and finds time to flesh out its characters as well as deliver witty dialogue that is always a part of this movie's bigger budget American cousins.  It all boils down to a fabulous conclusion which serves in ensuring the movie gets the bloody end it deserves, as well as rounding off the story perfectly.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment:
The cuts were Cuts for Category. The distributor chose to cuts two instances of explicit, unsimulated sexual activity (ejaculation and oral-genital contact) to secure an 18 certificate.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment:
The cuts were Cuts for Category. Distributor chose to remove sight of unsimulated oro-genital contact (licking of scrotum) to achieve an '18'. An uncut R18 was available to the distributor.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Compulsory. Cuts required to remove a sequence showing two horses falling into a river as a bridge collapses. No assurances were available explaining how the sequence was humanely achieved.

widescreen

All cuts waived when submitted in 2005

• A sequence implying anal rape was removed

Cut when resubmitted in 2002 with the following BBFC statement:

The cuts were Compulsory. Cuts required to remove strong language and images of blood spitting and man engulfed in fire for PG in keeping with Board Guidelines and video classification in 1997. According to BBFC policy, works of the same title passed after July 1994 should normally be given the same category.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Shown on BBC & Sky uncut

Same cuts for the cinema and Universal Pictures video release of 1997:

1. Billy Madisan's dialogue: You get your ass out of there and find the fucking dog loses the fucking
2. A party clown injures himself after falling off his stilts but we don't get to see the blood running from his mouth
3. A schoolroom prank involving a card which says Yes I'm horny. The BBFC didn't see the funny side and removed the joke
4. There is a shot missing of a man in a kitchen in flames.

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Compulsory. Cut required to sight of a horse falling from a cliff edge into a river

• The Gallery Murders
• The Phantom of Terror
• L'Uccello Dalle Piume di Cristallo
• Bird with the Glass Feathers

Pre-cut version passed at 15 when resubmitted in 2005. The cuts listed below are retained

The BBFC said: Sadly the version of Crystal Plumage we were given was the cut version. We doubt the cut material would be a problem now (although its reinstatement might have kept the film at '18') but we weren't given the opportunity to reconsider

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Originally cut in the US by 20s to achieve a US PG rating. This cut version was released in UK cinemas (X cert) as The Gallery Murders and then on video by Videomedia (pre VRA):

1. 8s removed of the killer ripping the panties off a victim.
2. 12s of cuts to an elevator scene showing a woman having her face slashed with a razor.

The 1975 cinema release escaped cuts but the same cuts applied to the video submissions of 1986 & 2002. The BBFC commented: Compulsory cut required to sight of cruelty to horses (illegal horse falls)

• A head butt has been deleted
• A skeleton's head being pierced by a metal bar has gone
• A blind folded topless woman with arms ripped open has been cut
• A man with a bullet wound in the head has gone along with a man shot in the chest and another who was shot and blown up
• A woman kicking a man in the crotch has been cut
• Close-ups of a sword impalement have gone
• A man falling through glass in slow motion has been excised

Encountered problems with the US censors and had to be cut to achieve an R rating as described below.

Black And White is a star-studded tale of rich white kids in New York City who become obsessed with uptown hip-hop culture and eventually find themselves entangled in a murder investigation.

The scene that aroused the MPAA's concern opens the film. Bijou Phillips, Kim Matalova, and rapper Power, from the Wu-Tang Clan are getting it on in a sexy th