BBFC Cuts I

BBFC category cuts were required for a 2015 12A rated cinema release

• 2015 cinema release

The same BBFC cuts apply to both the Hindi and Tamil versions:

• Distributor chose to remove moments of strong violence in order to achieve a 12A classification. An uncut 15 classification was available.

• 2015 cinema release

The same BBFC cuts apply to both the Hindi and Tamil versions:

• Distributor chose to remove moments of strong violence in order to achieve a 12A classification. An uncut 15 classification was available.

I am Curious Yellow

• Jag är nyfiken - en film i gult

Cut by the BBFC for cinema release but uncut for home video.

Summary Notes: No Entertainment

This famous Swedish art film is all about different dimensions of freedom: political, artistic and sexual.

The background reading is Herbert Marcuse's Eros and Civilization, the Magna Charta of the 1968 student revolution in Paris. Marcuse considered sexual freedom as the precondition for building a (new) humane society. Vilgot Sjoman seems to disagree with Marcuse: sexuality itself is expressed in possessiveness which is in conflict with the social and political programme of the radical left. There is also a significant feminist element in the film.

It's an art film that makes one think. Don't try to watch it for entertainment, as there is none.

X rated

• 2006 Second Sight R0 DVD at UK Amazon

• 1994 Jezebel VHS

US: Uncut and MPAA X Rated for:

• 2003 Criterion R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 1968 cinema release.

I Am Legend

The BBFC passed the Alternative Theatrical Version 15 uncut for the 2008 Warner DVD

From version details on IMDb :

The alternate theatrical version contains several new scenes:

• After Neville captures the Alpha Female, he notices that she has a butterfly tattoo on the back of her shoulder.
• After Neville thanks Anna for stitching his leg wound, they go out to where Neville was trapped the previous day. Neville recognizes the equipment as his own, but can't fathom what they're doing there. Anna asks him if the Dark Seekers could've made the trap, but Neville is adamant that they can't think or feel. Anna still brings up the point that Neville could be wrong and the Dark Seekers made the trap for him.
• Neville, Anna, and Ethan go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Neville and Anna sit together and watch Ethan fall into the water where the fish are. Ethan playfully splashes around, and Neville throws some food into the water. The fishes move frantically to get the food while Ethan floats in the middle of them. He remarks that it's cold, which makes Neville realize that he needs to lower the temperature of the Dark Seekers in order for the cure to work. He tells Anna and Ethan that they have to go.
• Additional shots of the Dark Seekers making their way into Neville's home.
• When the Dark Seekers corner Neville, Anna, and Ethan behind the Plexiglas, the Alpha Male shoves others out of his way and tries to break through the door. Eventually, the Alpha Male stops on his own and uses his hand to smear the shape of a butterfly on the door. Neville sees it, and then sees the butterfly tattoo again on the Alpha Female's shoulder. He realizes that he just wants his girl back. Neville gets the syringe he needs and injects the Alpha Female in the arm, waking her up. The Alpha Female hisses in delight upon seeing the Alpha Male, who tenderly presses their foreheads together. Neville is shocked that they feel love. The Alpha Male picks up his girl, screeches at Neville, and then leaves with the other Dark Seekers. Neville drops to the floor and looks at the wall of pictures he has of the Dark Seekers he's killed over the years, realizing that they have all been capable of thinking and feeling. Neville, Anna, and Ethan drive out of the city. The film ends with Anna broadcasting a message to other possible survivors. She says that she's traveling with Robert Neville and a boy named Ethan. She says that they have a cure for the virus and are heading towards Vermont. She urges anyone who's listening to have faith and continue to listen for their future broadcasts.

I Claudius: Zeus, by Jove!

Cut by the BBC between the first showing and the repeat. This cut version has persisted ever since

Summary Notes

Tiberius summons Caligula and his cousin Gemellus to Capri, declaring them his joint successors. Soon afterwards Tiberius is smothered by Macro, on the orders of Caligula, and his death is hailed joyfully by the citizens of Rome, unaware that worse is to come. Caligula, clearly unstable, sinks into a coma and on recovering, in addition to having Gemellus executed for trying to poison him, declares that he is the god Zeus and marries his sister Drusilla, declaring her a deity also. When Drusilla falls pregnant by him he cuts open her belly and eats the unborn child to prevent him having greater powers than himself as Zeus once allegedly did. Antonia, sickened by his depravity, kills herself.

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• 2002 BBC Worldwide DVD at UK Amazon

Note that this episode was rated 12 but the whole series was rated 15

Thanks to Gary:

On its first broadcast on 8 November 1976, the episode ended with a shot of Drusilla's disembowelled hanging corpse. Before the repeat showing later that week the BBC removed this shot, so that the scene ends with Claudius opening the door and exclaiming with horror. It then cuts to the credits, omitting the End of Part 8 caption. The shot is no longer believed to exist and the edited version is the only one now shown and the one released on DVD.

See Poor Albert and Little Annie

I Escaped from Devil's Island

Cut by the BBFC for 1973 cinema release. Uncut in the US

Summary Notes

In 1916, A group of prisoners plot their escape from the notorious fortress located in French Guiana.

• 2014 Shout! Factory RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 1973 cinema release

See Dry Summer

See Je t'aime moi non plus

See Drop Dead Dearest

I Saw the Devil

• Akmareul boatda

Cut by local film censors for the Korean Version. Some cuts were restored for the shortened

The jury is out as to which of the two available versions are best with perhaps most votes for the Korean Version due to preferred musical score at the end

shortened

• 2011 Magnolia RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2011 Magnolia R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

The director re-edited the film for overseas audiences, reinstating some of the violence and cutting some dialogue sequences for reasons of pacing.

See also pictorial comparison between Korean and International versions from wildgrounds.com

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80-90s

• 2011 Optimum RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2011 Optimum R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2011 Optimum Online

This version was cut by 80-90s by the Korean censors to obtain a commercially viable certificate. Cuts were made to:

• a scene of body parts being eaten by a dog and humans
• a human body being mutilated.

I Spit on Your Grave

The film was cut by the BBFC for all UK releases. It is uncut and MPAA Unrated in the US but banned in New Zealand.

See also  information about this remake in BBFC Case Study: I Spit on your Grave (1978) from bbfc.co.uk

Summary Notes

A writer who is brutalized during her cabin retreat seeks revenge on her attackers, who left her for dead.

• 2011 Anchor Bay RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2011 Anchor Bay R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 2015 Platform Entertainment [I Spit On Your Grave 1-3] RB Blu-ray
• 2015 Platform Entertainment [I Spit On Your Grave 1-3] R2 DVD
• 2011 Anchor Bay Blu-ray
• 2011 Anchor Bay R2 DVD
• 2010 cinema release.

The BBFC explained their cuts:

• Company was required to make a total of seventeen cuts during three separate scenes of sexual violence in order to remove potentially harmful material (in this case, shots of nudity that tend to eroticise sexual violence and shots of humiliation that tend to endorse sexual violence by encouraging viewer complicity in sexual humiliation and rape).

The BBFC added:

I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE is a US remake of the 1978 film of the same name. It tells the story of a young woman, Jennifer Hills, who rents a secluded cabin in order to work on her novel. She is terrorised, assaulted and brutally gang raped by a group of five men, including the local Sheriff. She then takes revenge on each of her attackers. The film was classified 18 for very strong terrorisation, sexual violence and bloody violence.

Before awarding an 18 classification to I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE, the BBFC required seventeen individual cuts to its scenes of sexual violence in order to remove elements that tend to eroticise sexual assault (for example, through the use of nudity), as well as other elements that tend to endorse sexual assault (for example, by encouraging viewer complicity by the use of camcorder footage, filmed by the rapists, during the various scenes of sexual assault). With these cuts made, the film's scenes of very strong terrorisation and sexual violence remain potentially shocking, distressing or offensive to some adult viewers, but are also likely to be found repugnant and to be aversive. They are not credibly likely to encourage imitation. There are three scenes in which Jennifer is terrorised, humiliated and sexually assaulted by the men. She is verbally and physically abused, being forced to drink alcohol, dance in her underwear and behave like an animal. She is also beaten and pushed around by the men. Jennifer is then raped by each of the men in turn, although only two rapes are shown onscreen. In the cut version, the rape scenes feature only incidental nudity and are played largely off facial reactions. Although the scenes of assault are protracted, the most likely response to the cut version of the scenes is revulsion and disgust rather than excitement or arousal.

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

The [2010 remake] contains long and realistic scenes showing the brutal terrorisation and rape of a woman by a group of men. Later scenes show her implausible but sadistic vengeance against her tormentors.

It encouraged attitudes that contribute to sexual violence, torture by terror and other extremes of cruelty and violence, particularly against women.

The treatment of the woman before she is raped, is an all-too-plausible and realistic version of the kind of abuse meted out to many women. There is minimal effort to explain the sadistic behaviour of the male characters.

The length of the scenes and their gratuitous focus on [her] suffering offer maximum opportunity for misogynistic pleasure. Viewers are repeatedly invited to share the point of view of the rapists and are therefore placed in the position of prurient voyeurs.

Some viewers may well identify with male dominance and power, and echo the men's enjoyment of the woman's terror and humiliation.

I Spit on Your Grave 2

Released in Unrated and R rated versions, with the cut R rated version being released in the UK.

Promotional Material

When Katie innocently accepts an offer to have new photos taken for her portfolio, the experience quickly turns into a nightmare of rape, torture and kidnapping. Now, she will have to find the strength to exact her brutal revenge.

R18+

• 2013 Starz/Anchor Bay RA Blu-ray/R1 DVD Combo via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2013 Starz/Anchor Bay R1 DVD at US Amazon

Australia: Uncut and rated R18+

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MPAA

• 2015 Platform Entertainment [I Spit On Your Grave 1-3] RB Blu-ray
• 2015 Platform Entertainment [I Spit On Your Grave 1-3] R2 DVD
• 2013 Anchor Bay Entertainment RB Blu-ray
• 2013 Anchor Bay Entertainment R2 DVD

US: MPAA rated R For strong sadistic violence, torture and rape, graphic nudity, language and some drug content.

Presumably this is the same version that was presented at the FrightFest as the 'Festival Cut'.

The BBFC commented:

This film was originally seen for advice in an incomplete version. The company was informed that 27 cuts would be required across six scenes to remove various elements of sexual and sexualised violence. Without these cuts the work would have been refused a classification. When the completed version of the film was submitted for formal classification, all the requested cuts had been made, and the film was classified 18.

See pictorial cuts from movie-censorship.com . 43 cuts have been made for sexual violence totalling 1:41s.

The rape scenes with Katie were heavily cut or other parts of the picture were used, and some nude scenes were replaced by alternative footage. But the scenes depicting violence weren't changed at all.

Passed 18 uncut for for strong bloody violence, sex, sexual violence, very strong language for 2015 video. Uncut and MPAA Unrated in the US.

I Spit on Your Grave

• Day of the Woman
• I Hate Your Guts
• The Rape and Revenge of Jennifer Hill

Uncut version is available at:

The film was banned as one of the most notable video nasties in 1983. It was unbanned after massive BBFC cuts for 2001 and 2006 DVD. These cuts were reduced to about half in 2010. Cut in the US for an R rating but MPAA Unrated releases are uncut.

See also BBFC Case Study: I Spit on your Grave (1978) from bbfc.co.uk

Summary Review: Brutal

The film is evenly paced and unrelenting. One is forced to confront the brutality of rape and violence.

The actress is quite convincing and deserves recognition. The men are sickening and easily hated; they are just vicious animals without any redeeming qualities, yet they are believable.

Without question, the rape scenes are some of the most disturbing moments in cinematic history. The castration scene is unparalleled.

• 2011 Anchor Bay RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and via US Amazon
• 2011 Anchor Bay R1 DVD via UK Amazon and via US Amazon

• 2010 101 Films Blu-ray
• 2010 101 Films DVD

The BBFC commented on their cuts:

• Company was required to make cuts to scenes of sexual violence in order to remove potentially harmful material.

In its Case Study, the BBFC further explained about the reduced cuts:

In 2010, the BBFC was asked to take another look at the film. The BBFC carefully considered the cuts made in 2001 and concluded that they were excessive.

Although the cuts had successfully removed the most eroticised elements of nudity, they had also removed some of the horror of the rapes, most notably the scene in which Jennifer is raped over a rock, which had been deleted entirely. On this occasion, it was concluded that any material that emphasised the horrors of sexual violence, whilst not focussing principally on nudity, could be reinstated. However, the moments that seemed to focus on nudity in a prurient and exploitative manner, as well as the moments that emphasised the enjoyment of the rapists, were still subjected to cuts. In total, two minutes 54 seconds were cut in 2011.

See also pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

41s

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• 2006 International Trading/Screen Entertainment Special Edition R0 DVD

The BBFC explained their additional cuts

• Cut was required to remove images of a woman being raped over a rock

The  distributors claimed that the missing 7 minutes were restored prior to resubmission. This is not the case. The latest submission was pre-cut by the distributor basically in line with the BBFC's 2001 cuts list. However, this time they decided to make the cuts differently (and, in fairness, more smoothly) than on the previous submission. Some of the cuts have been made by reframing (rather than removing) unacceptable material. This means that certain sequences that were previously cut are now partially present, albeit in a reframed version. As for the 41 seconds of cuts, these occurred at the one point where the BBFC didn't feel that the  reframing (and their other tricks, such as use of slow motion) achieved the effect required by the 2001 cuts list. Basically, they had reframed the rape over the rock so that you couldn't see the woman being raped (she was below screen) but you could still see the attackers thrusting and enjoying the attack. The BBFC asked for this to be removed.

• 2005 Anchor Bay Box of the Damned R2 DVD
• 2005 International Trading/Screen Entertainment VHS
• 2001 International Trading/Screen Entertainment VHS

The BBFC commented on their cuts:

• Compulsory cuts were required to remove several sequences of sexual violence and humiliating depictions of female nudity in line with published Sexual Violence Guidelines.
   
• All cuts are to the gang rape scenes - no cuts in the 'revenge' section.

• 1982 Wizard/Astra VHS

Released on VHS in January 1982 first under the Wizard label and then labelled Astra (Astra were UK distributors for US based Wizard).

The video was one of the prime targets of the moral press and it was listed as a Video Nasty in July 1983. It stayed on the list throughout so is therefore one the collectable DPP39s

See article from ifco.ie . IFCO commented:

Prohibited in accordance with Section 7 of The Video Recordings Act 1989 on the grounds that in the opinion of the Acting Director of Film Classification it depicts acts of gross violence and cruelty (including torture) towards Humans

I Spy

• I-Spy

Both the cinema release of 2002 and the DVD releases of 2003 were similarly cut with the following BBFC comment:

Company was obliged to remove sight of knife penetrating leg and also being withdrawn in order to attain 12A. An uncut 15 classification was available.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

I, the Jury

• A scene has been cut which flicks back and forth between an orgy taking place when Hammer visits a suspect, and, the torture of two naked women by a psycho with a cut throat razor. I am sure the linking of sex and violence gave the censor a seizure. The orgy scene seems to exist in at least 2 versions with varying shots of nudity...a TV version maybe.
• Also, there are cuts to a scene where a woman has her throat slit in a restaurant.

The US video (CBS/Fox)  contains the 4 minutes cut from the UK, but is still missing the throat slashing (probably cut for an R rating).

I Vampiri

• The Vampires
• Lust of the Vampire
• The Devil's Commandment

UK: Passed 12 uncut for moderate threat for:

• 2013 Arrow [Mask of Satan + Black Sunday + I vampiri] RB Blu-ray/R1 DVD Combo at UK Amazon

Summary Review: More mystery than horror

A mad scientist captures young women and drains their blood, in order to keep alive an ancient, evil duchess.

The way this movie is played out makes it more or a mystery than an horror really. It was also an early Italian horror production, so they were still mostly trying out some new stuff in this one. It was also the first one to involve the later to become legendary Italian horror director Mario Bava, who had some major influences on the future development of the genre.

• 1960 cinema release

See Hardcore 18s: I want Your Love

Ice Age 4: Continental Drift

• Ice Age: Continental Drift

Standard releases are uncut by film censors but an audio descriptive versions was cut for language

MPAA

• 2012 20th Century Fox R2 Video
• 2012 [2D + 3D] cinema release

US: Uncut and MPAA PG Rated for:

• 20th Century Fox (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 20th Century Fox R1 DVD at US Amazon
• US VOD to buy [US only] at US Amazon

• 2012 20th Century Fox R2 Video

Maybe there is some UK specific dialogue

• 20 12 20th Century Fox R2 Video

The BBFC commented:

• Distributor chose to remove a use of the word spastic , as a term to describe a character, in order to achieve a U classification.

The word 'spastic' appeared in the audio description rather than the film itself.

The Iceman Cometh

• Ji dong ji xia
• Time Warriors

The cuts were waived and the video was down rated to 15 in 2005

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

Review from imdb

I really like this beautifully shot and choreographed action-fantasy/time travel yarn from Clarence Fok, the director of the moody Gun and Rose and the highly regarded Naked Killer . It is an ambitious, rich production that boasts several stunning martial arts sequences and not a few jaw-dropping stunts. It is such an aesthetically rich and varied piece of entertainment that it never fails to please.

Biao is excellent as the naive palace guard who comes into contact with sweet-natured callgirl Maggie Cheung. He is totally believable as the fish out of water and stunning when asked to demonstrate his extraordinary physical skills. A fight atop a crane is masterful, as is a snow-bound sword fight, a duel inside a museum and a heart-stopping leap over a speeding car on a freeway. Yuen Wah, whose character warms immediately to 20th century firearms and criminality, is also amazing in his demanding, bone-punishing role.

Fok, who always brings a strong visual style to his movies, directs the sometimes brutal action with consummate professionalism and fills the cast list with memorable character actors and assorted beauties. A great score helps, too.

A gem.

Ichi the Killer

• Koroshiya 1
• Koroshiya ichi

The film was substantially cut by the BBFC for all UK releases. THE US MPAA Unrated version is uncut.

Summary Review

As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.

I have come away with the impression that Miike is a brilliant filmmaker capable of forcing extreme reactions from his viewers. Hollywood should take note of this guy and bring him over here for a project or two.  Miike's warped visions would send American censors scrambling for a sedative, and most mainstream viewers would recoil from the graphic nature of this director's films.

A word of warning for those thinking of indulging in "Ichi the Killer": the movie is loaded with sadism, gore, black comedy, and all around unpleasantness. It's a tough watch, even for a gore fan.

• 2010 Tokyo Shock RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2003 Media Blasters R0 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

The New Zealand Siren DVD is the cut UK version.

There's also a cut R rated US version from Media Blasters.

Other world releases are uncut.

• 2009 Showbox R2 DVD
• 2007 Medusa/E1 R2 DVD
• 2004 Medusa/E1 Special Collector's Box R2 DVD
• 2003 Medusa/E1 R2 DVD
• 2002 cinema release

The BBFC explained the cuts:

The BBFC has required 11 cuts (approximately three and a quarter minutes of screen time) to the Japanese cinema film Ichi the Killer . The cuts have been made to remove extreme sexualised violence. These are the most substantial cuts required by the BBFC to an 18 rated film since 1994.

The Board's main concern is with content which is likely to promote harmful activity. The Board's Guidelines constrain, in particular, depictions which eroticise or appear to endorse sexual violence. Of specific concern are sexual images in a violent context which are designed to titillate. The Guidelines take account of academic research which indicates that violence when mixed with explicit sexual images (women forcibly stripped, shots which linger on naked breasts or genitalia during rape or assault) may produce a harmful response in some viewers.

The scenes cut from Ichi the Killer include naked women being sexually mutilated or beaten or killed. They contain images of erotically explicit violence which have never been passed by the BBFC at any classification level.

Ichi the Killer is a live action film based on a popular Japanese manga comic. Ichi, who has unusual powers, is caught in a conflict between two rival yakuza gangs. The film taken as a whole belongs to a genre of vivid fantasy violence which has been part of Japanese cinema for many years. The Board does not consider that the cartoon-like damage perpetrated by male gangsters on one another in the rest of the film is likely, at the adult classification level, to inspire emulation. However, this contrasts sharply with the eroticized scenes of violence against female characters which the Board has cut. These scenes appear to the Board to have no function other than the pleasure of the onlooker.

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

Identity

The Theatrical Version was passed 15 without cuts for the 2003 cinema release and 2003 Columbia/TriStar DVD/Blu-ray.

There is also an Extended Version.

From version details on IMDb :

• There is an additional scene at the courthouse showing Detective Varole getting upset that the prisoner transport is out of contact.
• It also has a re-cut ending featuring a little ore violence

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon
The uncut US Blu-ray is available at US Amazon

Identity Thief

Inevitably 2 versions, Unrated and R Rated Theatrical. Both are 15 uncut in the UK. The additional material for the Unrated version is uncontroversial.

Unrated

• 2013 Universal [Theatrical + Unrated] RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon

US: The Unrated Version is released for:

• 2013 Universal [Theatrical + Unrated] RA Blu-ray/R1 DVD Combo at US Amazon
• 2013 Universal [Theatrical + Unrated] R1 DVD at US Amazon

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com . The Unrated Version is 8:49s longer. Typical unrated material that could've been too risque for the R -rated theatrical version is nowhere in sight.

R rated

• 2013 Universal R2 DVD
• 2013 cinema release

An Idiot Abroad: Season 3 Episode 3

UK: AN edited Version was passed 15 for strong language for without BBFC cuts:

• 2012 2Entertain RB Blu-ray
• 2012 2Entertain R2 DVD

It was passed 15 uncut a few weeks earlier but seems to be one of batch of DVDs resubmitted by 2Entertain when jokes about children were being deleted. This is as a result of sensitivity arising from the Jimmy Savile scandal.

• 2012 2Entertain Video Replaced with a cut version

The Idiots

• Idioterne
• Dogma 2: The Idiots

Uncut in the UK. Real sex was censored in the US R rated version with black bars

Summary Review : Actual Intercourse

The group of people gather at the house in Copenhagen suburb to break all the limitations and to bring out the inner idiot in themselves.

Shot with handheld digital cameras and using natural lighting and natural locations, THE IDIOTS possesses an urgency that makes it feel like a documentary. Von Trier sparked a heated controversy with his decision to film the sex scenes with actual intercourse, adhering to the Dogme tenets. (He hired porn actors for the close-ups.) This controversy aside, the film nonetheless raises questions about cultism, modern ethics, and the idea of individuality within the absurdity of the characters' world.

Stoffer is the leader of the group and he orders a gang bang to take place for his birthday -- here is where we have our unsimulated sex. There are shots of sexual penetration and group sex. There is an erect willy in a shower scene.

• 2000 Palisades Tartan R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 1999 Tartan VHS
• 1999 cinema release

If....  

Cut by the BBFC for 1968 cinema release. Additional cuts for an AA rated cinema release in 1971. The Original Cinema Version was released to home video and this is now the best available version. Also cut in the US for an R rating

Summary Notes

In an indictment of the British public school system, we follow Mick and his mostly younger friends through a series of indignities and occasionally abuse as any fond feelings toward these schools are destroyed. When Mick and his friends rebel, violently, the catch phrase, "which side would you be on" becomes quite stark.

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• 2014 Eureka Masters of Cinema RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2007 Paramount R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2001 cinema release
• 1986 CIC VHS

• 1968 cinema release

The original cinema version with pre-submission cuts to male nudity in the shower scene has now become the definitive version.

See on article from homecinema.thedigitalfix.com :

The film had problems with the censor. The main problem was the sequence where Mrs Kemp (Mary MacLeod) appears nude, including one shot in a corridor where her pubic hair can be seen. The only precedent for this on British screens was the Swedish film Hugs and Kisses, where a scene of female full-frontal nudity had provoked controversy a year or so earlier. Secretary of the BBFC, John Trevelyan, struck a bargain with Anderson: if he removed shots of male genitalia from the shower scene, Trevelyan would not cut Mrs Kemp's nude scene. Anderson went along with this, the film received an X certificate uncut, and the shower scene remains as-edited to this day.

There are doubts about whether the US Criterion edition is the original cinema version. Possibly it has retained old US censor cuts.

• 1971 cinema release

See on article from homecinema.thedigitalfix.com :

The brief cut may have been a glimpse of Christine Noonan's pubic hair in her naked romp with McDowell in the coffee shop.

If Looks Could Kill

The BBFC cut 1:22s for:

• 1987 Adrian Munsey VHS

If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have To Invent Them

The BBFC passed 2 versions 12 uncut for the 2010 Sound & Media DVD

Both versions region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

If These Walls Could Talk

BBFC cuts were required for 1997 15 rated VHS.  Uncut and MPAA R rated in the US.

Summary Notes

A trilogy of stories set in the same house, but with different occupants and spanning over 40 years, deals with various women and moral crisis over unexpected pregnancies and their choice of abortion. In 1952, when abortion was illegal, a nurse deals with her unexpected pregnancy and takes drastic measures to get one. In 1974 a family housewife with four children discovers that she's pregnant and decides she can't handle another child to raise. In 1996, a pregnant college student decides on an abortion, but doesn't realize the means to go through to get one.

• 2013 HBO R0 DVD-R via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 1997 Medusa VHS

The BBFC cuts were:

• In hospital ward, after man's first gunshot into Cher in surgical gown, remove further shots and blood spurts, resuming as he fires and nurse crouches, his hand on her head.

Iguana with the Tongue of Fire

• L'iguana dalla lingua di fuoco
• Die Bestie mit dem feurigen Atem

Banned by the BBFC for 1972 cinema release. Uncut in the US

Summary Review: Brutal Gaillo

In Dublin, a young woman is brutally murdered in her home by a maniac that throws acid in her face and then slits her throat with a razor. The Swiss Ambassador, who was the dead woman's lover, refuses to cooperate with the police due to his diplomatic immunity. John Norton, an ex-cop famed for his brutal working methods, is brought in to help and gets too deeply involved when he starts an affair with the Ambassador's beautiful step-daughter, Helen. Meanwhile, the brutal killings continue.

• De R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: Uncut for:

• 2009 Sinister R0 DVD-R at US Amazon
• US VOD to rent/buy [US only] at US Amazon

• 1972 cinema release

Il Grido

• The Cry

No BBFC cuts noted to the 2009 Eureka R2 DVD

The submitted running time was noted as 116:15s = 111:36s

I'll Never Forget What's'isname

• I'll Never Forget What's 'is Name
• Den tha xehaso pote t' onoma tou

Cut by the BBFC for 1967 X rated cinema release. Uncut and 15 rated for 2016 DVD. A notable censorship history in the US as the refused MPAA Seal of Approval is reported to have contributed to the end of the production code in favour of a rating system.

Summary Notes

Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing for a small literary magazine. He wants to leave his former life behind, going as far as saying good-bye to his wife and mistresses. He finds, however, that it's not so easy to escape the past.

Unrated

• 2016 Screenbound Pictures R2 DVD at UK Amazon

• 2000 Starz / Anchor Bay R1 DVD at US Amazon

From IMDb. The film was denied a MPAA seal of approval due to a scene between Oliver Reed and Carol White that implied oral sex. Universal distributed the film through a subsidiary that was not a signatory to the MPAA.

Along with a similar scene in Charlie Bubbles (1967), this helped to bring about the end of the Production Code and its replacement with a ratings system.

• 1967 cinema release titled I'll Never Forget What's 'is Name

From IMDb. The BBFC originally requested the complete removal of Josie's single use of the word 'fucking' for the film's cinema release. A compromise was reached between the censors and Michael Winner, and instead the word was partly obscured by the sound of a car horn.

Illicit Dreams

Illusions of Sin

A scene in which an unidentified man molests a drugged woman has suffered lest it gives us ideas.

Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS

Banned by the BBFC for 1975 and 1976 cinema release. Not submitted since. Uncut and Unrated in the US

Summary Review : Brutal

This film takes place in a Nazi concentration camp dedicated to pseudo medical experimentation on its prisoners. Ilsa, the commandant is portrayed in ruthless fashion by the stunning Dyanne Thorne. Thorne designs and carries out the most excruciatingly painful and torturous experiments on her helpless victims.

Thorne is the essence of cruelty for cruelty's sake. Thorne is the screen's incarnation of pure evil. I can think of no other film that is as disturbing as this one. The explicit sadism portrayed in this film may or may not have actually occurred as depicted. But unthinkable sadism, torture, cruelty and debauchery did actually occur in Nazi camps.

This is an unbelievably difficult film to watch because the brutality depicted is extremely graphic. After viewing this film I was shocked and I had a feeling of just how brutal the Nazis actually were.

• NL 2006 Prime Time R2 DVD via UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2000 Starz/Anchor Bay R0 DVD via US Amazon

• 1976 cinema release
• 1975 cinema release

Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks

Banned by the BBFC from 1973 cinema release. Unbanned and uncut in 2013. The US R rated version is heavily cut for violence

Summary Review : Resplendent in khaki shorts

Dyanne Thorn returns in the storming sequel to She Wolf , and it seems to have been given a budget boost, as the setting moves to an Arabian oils sheik's kingdom in the middle of the desert, where Ilsa presides over his palace as right hand security guard and keeper of his harem of kidnapped beauties.

The film doesn't quite match the excesses of the first film in bad taste, and the camp comedy elements have all been increased, but there are still many gruesome scenes as the harem women are abused and tortured for various reasons, including a pretty revolting sub-plot to assassinate the sheik by deploying a bomb placed inside a woman's body that will detonate during sex!

Uniform fans will be pleased to see Ilsa resplendent in her khaki shorts and boots, but she does not have the same presence as in the previous film because she is herself punished at one point by despotic sheik, and its a shame to see that the film recycles her weakness of falling in love with a hunky American, which once again leads to her downfall.

Unrated

• 2013 Lions Gate video

The BBFC commented in the Annual Report covering 2013:

• Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks was refused a certificate when it was originally submitted to the BBFC in 1977. In 2013 it was submitted on video for DVD release and passed 18 without cuts. While there are scenes in which women are abused and experimented upon with a love machine , these now appear dated and unrealistic and do not raise credible harm concerns.

Netherlands: uncut for:

• NL 2006 Prime Time R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2000 Anchor Bay R0 DVD via US Amazon

• 2012 Cheezy Flicks R0 DVD

From sexgoremutants.co.uk :

• When Satin and Velvet deliver a death blow to their victim, the camera lingering over the victims' bloodied face and screams has been removed. A few minutes later a few frames have been removed when a bag of body parts are emptied out the harem floor.
• In the teeth removal scene , shots of blood dripping onto feet as the little white tootsies hit the floor have been purged.
• A full sequence of 1:11s is completely cut, ie the sadistic torture sequence in which a hapless whore's breasts are clamped in a medieval style vice.
• Missing shots of ants eating into flesh
• Omitted shots of a gouged eye socket
• The most infamous scene of the movie (and arguably the whole ILSA series) the exploding dildo sequence suffered numerous snips. Most notably Ilsa inciting the inevitable carnage with her demands of faster and deeper have been removed along with various shots of the victim's moans of pleasure. Obviously the brief but potent shot of penetrated detonation itself simply skips to blood hitting for El Sharif's face.

• 1973 cinema release

Presumably there is a date error in the BBFC database as the ban is 3 years before the worldwide release

Ilsa the Wicked Warden

• Greta - Haus ohne Männer
• Greta the Torturer
• Greta, the Mad Butcher
• Greta, the Sadist
• Ilsa: Absolute Power
• Wanda, the Wicked Warden

Cut by the BBFC for DVD. In the US there is an uncut Unrated Version and a cut R rated versions

Summary Review: Sleaze Maintained

Ilsa, now a vicious warden, runs a mental-hospital for young women. A girl deliberately checks in to the hospital to find out what has happened to her sister who stayed there.

It's not like the plot is all that important; it serves merely as the most tenuous of threads with which Franco can tie together his usual penchant for nudity, depraved violence, and ham fisted dialogue. One thing is for certain: Ilsa, the Wicked Warden easily maintains the sleaze factor established in the first two films.

• 2000 Starz/Anchor Bay R0 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 2012 Cheezy Flicks R0 DVD

See article from sexgoremutants.co.uk . All scenes including frontal nudity have been roughly excised, even where essential dialogue has fallen victim too. Non-nude sexual violence has been retained though.

• 2004 Anchor Bay R2 DVD

The BBFC commented:

• Cuts required to remove scenes of sadistic and sexualised violence

From IMDb:

• Heavy edits to an extensive scene where male guards rape some of the prisoners in the clinic supposedly in the name of prisoner therapy.
• Cuts to Ilsa whipping a chained naked woman
• Cut scene of a naked woman being suffocated by Ilsa with a plastic bag.

Ilsa the Tigress of Siberia

Never submitted to the BBFC until 2013 when it was passed 18 uncut

Summary Review: Cold Hearted

Siberia 1953: Ilsa is now working in a Gulag prison camp. Her mission is to retrain the minds of those who don't agree with the communists. When Stalin dies, the camp closes down, Ilsa and the guards kill the prisoners and leave. Ilsa moves on to brothel keeping in Toronto. Her Russian past soon catches up with her.

Not as nasty as previous instalments. There's some gore, plenty of soft core sex and silly dialogue to keep the viewer entertained.

• 2013 Lions Gate video

The 4th film in the Ilsa series wasn't previously submitted to the BBFC. Distributors had probably given up trying after so much censorship hassle with the other Ilsa films

Netherlands : Uncut for:

• NL Filmfreaks R0 DVD via UK Amazon and via US Amazon

I'm a Porn Star

Summary Notes

I'm a Porn Star follows the lives of guys in the neighborhood who are likely a lot more famous than you - at least on the Internet. There are an estimated 370 million pornographic websites on-line. Porn is now a thirteen BILLION dollar business. So who's doing all this moonlighting? Turns out -- probably some people you know.

• 2014 Tla Releasing R2 DVD at UK Amazon released on 29th September 2014

• Company chose to remove a number of shots showing explicit pornography in order to achieve an 18 classification. An uncut R18 classification was available.

I'm Not Feeling Myself Tonight

• Sex Ray
• The Love Ray

No BBFC cuts listed for the 2009 Sound & Media DVD.

The running time suggests that this version is probably uncut

The region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon

pre-cut

The submitted running time was noted as 83:31s = 80:11s

Image of Bruce Lee

• Meng nan da zei yan zhi hu

Cut when submitted in 1990

Uncut in the UK

See Three Immoral Women

Immortals  

Uncut at:

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2012 20th century Fox [2D + 3D] RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2012 Universal RA Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2012 Universal R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 2012 Universal R0 Blu-ray/DVD
• 2012 Universal Steelbook 2D/3D R0 Blu-ray
• 2012 Universal R2 DVD
• 2011 cinema release

The BBFC commented:

Company chose to make cuts to reduce violence in order to achieve a 15 classification. Cuts included:

• removal of the bloody focus on a throat being cut

• reducing the focus on young women dying, having been burnt

• reducing the focus on eye gouging

• removing the shot of a beheading, and

• reducing some focus on large splashes of blood resulting from characters being killed.

An uncut 18 classification was available.

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

The Imp

• Sorority Babes in the Slime Bowl-a-Rama

The video was cut when submitted in 1988

Thanks to Bleach on the Melon Farmers Forum :

• At 8.5 mins-Close up of two different women`s buttocks hit with bat and rear views of spanking which follows were removed.
• at 63 mins-all sight of woman with raised whip advancing on naked cowering woman and impending blow with studded bat which follows were removed.

The uncut region 0 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from Amazon US :

I watched this film because I enjoy camp movies for what they are. The problem that this movie has is, that while it tries to be a campy, cult film (a bit too hard, judging from the title), it commits the unforgivable sin of being boring. This movie had me begging for the end to arrive. Avoid this film at all costs. It has no redeeming features of any sort. (OK, the girls are fairly attractive; but you will quickly forget that as the pain of the film begins.)

The Importance of Being Sexy

• Loving and Laughing
• The Hippie Girls

Cut by the BBFC for 1972 cinema release

Summary Notes

Quebec sex farce about a straitlaced young man who spends time in a commune, while a hippie takes his place as a French tutor for a rich family's daughter.

• 1972 cinema release titled The Importance of Being Sexy
• 1972 cinema release titled Loving and Laughing
• 1972 cinema release titled The Hippie Girls

Impostor

The Theatrical Version was cut for a US PG-13 versions. The uncut Director's Cut is R rated

Summary Notes

Originally a 30 minute portion for an anthology film, Impostor was retooled into a full length feature film. Based on the Philip K. Dick short story of the same name, it follows the lead character Spencer Olham's quest to regain his identity after being suspected as an alien android, in an future Earth at war with aliens that use the androids as bombs to destroy their enemies homeworlds.

R Rated

• 2003 Prism Leisure R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2002 Metrodome R2 DVD

• 2002 Dimension R1 DVD at US Amazon

cut

PG-13

• 2002 Metrodome R2 DVD
• 2002 cinema release

The film was extensively cut for a US PG-13 rating. See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

See:

• Self Censored Banned List: In a Glass Cage
• International Banned List: In a Glass Cage

In My Father's Den

The BBFC cut the 2005 cinema release and 2008 Optimum DVD for a 15 rating. The distributor chose to remove a scene which showed consensual asphyxiation in a sexual context in order to achieve a '15'. An uncut '18' was available to the distributor.

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

• The missing scene is where Paul picks up a women in the bar and they return to his room for sex. The woman uses a belt to consensually suffocate Paul, but this eventually spooks the woman and she leaves

In Secret

• Therese

Summary Notes

Set in the lower echelons of 1860s Paris, Therese Raquin, a sexually repressed beautiful young woman, is trapped into a loveless marriage to her sickly cousin, Camille, by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin. Therese spends her days confined behind the counter of a small shop and her evenings watching Madame play dominoes with an eclectic group. After she meets her husband's alluring friend, Laurent, she embarks on an illicit affair that leads to tragic consequences.

In the Cut

• En carne viva

Unrated

UK: The Unrated Director's Edition was passed 18 uncut for:

• 2004 Pathe R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2003 cinema release

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2004 Sony R1 DVD at US Amazon

The movie features a realistic looking explicit blow job that the film makers have said is faked using a prosthetic penis.

In the Electric Mist

UK: The Director's Cut/Long Version/Extended Version was passed 15 uncut for:

• 2010 High Fliers video (unreleased)

Sweden: The Director's Cut is uncut for:

• Sw DVD at UK Amazon

• 2010 High Fliers R2 DVD.

In the Line of Duty

• In the Line of Duty 4
• Wong gaa si ze IV - Zik gik zing jan

See trailer from youtube.com

R Rated

UK: Both the English and Cantonese language versions were passed 18 uncut for:

• 2001 Medusa/Hong Kong Legends R2 DVD via UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2003 20th Century Fox R1 DVD via US Amazon

Summary Review: Masterpiece of the Genre

Two detectives who are up to their necks in trouble and in each other's face, as they try to shut down a drug-trafficking scheme that could be connected ti international organized crime.

Director Yuen Woo-ping presents the viewer with a roller-coaster ride of top action set-pieces and amazing acrobatics that show off his stars' skills to great effect. Khan is easy on the eye, but deadly in a fight. Yen is also on fine form, performing more than his fair share of life-threatening action.

Throw in some great motorcycle-fu, loads of energetic gun fights, a sword fight or two, and good support from both Yat Chor Yuen and Michael Won, and the result is a hugely enjoyable masterpiece of the genre.

• 1990 Videosino VHS

• 1990 VPD VHS

In the Line of Fire

Cut by the BBFC for cinema release, VHS and DVD, then uncut for Blu-ray. Uncut in the US

Promotional Material

Ever since he failed to save the life of President John F. Kennedy in the 1963 Dealey Plaza assassination, secret service agent Frank Horrigan (Clint Eastwood) has had to live with the guilty feeling that maybe things would have been different if he had reacted more quickly. Thirty years after the event, when the U.S. President begins receiving death threats, Horrigan investigates and finds the culprit to be master-of-disguise Mitch Leary (John Malkovich). However, a simple arrest is out of the question, for Leary knows about Horrigan's weakness and is determined to use it against him in a lethal game of cat and mouse.

Cutting Edge: Quick Trims

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R rated

• 2008 Sony R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA R rated for:

• 2008 Sony R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2002 Sony R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

• 2005 UCA R2 DVD
• 2002 Sony R2 DVD
• 1994 Columbia/Tri-Star VHS

Cuts of 8-10s apply to both 1993 cinema and 1994 Columbia/TriStar video versions. The same cuts spec was implemented slightly differently for different versions. From IMDb :

• Removed close-ups of the plastic bag over Al's head during the opening sequence.
• The bullet impact has been removed from Frank's 1st shooting of a bad guy.
• Frank's shooting of the second bad guy on the boat is also cut - but only on widescreen prints - to remove the blood cloud. On the VHS pan and scan version, the blood impact happens off-screen.
• The assault on the banker's housemate has been cut from the DVD as well, but remains in the VHS video with a toned-down impact sound. Shortly after this, the two neck breaks have been removed completely, despite the BBFC only requesting sound cuts.

Thanks to Martin, May 2008: Breaks Back

I noticed during Friday's late night TV showing (00:50) of the Clint Eastwood film In the Line of Fire on ITV 2 that the previously cut scene of John Malkovich killing the bank teller and her room-mate at their home was uncut. This meant the fairly graphic depiction of 2 neck-breaks, sound effects included.

In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale

• Schwerter des Königs - Dungeon Siege

Unrated

The Director's Cut was passed 15 uncut for the 2010 Metrodome Blu-ray

This is more than just a version adding back bits removed for the US PG-13, more a total rework of the film. (And an improvement on the poorly received theatrical cut)

See version differences from movie-censorship.com

The uncut US Blu-ray is available at US Amazon
The uncut US Blu-ray is available via UK Amazon

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PG-13

In the Realm of the Senses

• Ai No Corrida
• Ai No Korida
• L'Empire des sens
• The Realm of the Senses

There's a longer Theatrical Version and a (preferred) shorter Producers Cut. Historically 10s have been deleted from all versions until the cuts were waived by the BBFC in 2011.

See article from bbfc.co.uk : Censorship History

Cut for early releases via Cinema Clubs

The film was first shown here at the 1976 London Film Festival, where it won the critic's prize, before being acquired by the Gate Cinema in Notting Hill. At the time, the BBFC's Secretary, James Ferman, expressed the informal view that the film would require very heavy cuts to its more explicit sexual details before it could be awarded an X certificate. Any such cuts were likely to be very damaging to what was already a critically acclaimed film, from an established director.

Ferman therefore suggested that it would be preferable to show the film, without cuts, to members of private cinema clubs rather than approach the BBFC for a formal classification decision. Nonetheless, Ferman suggested that the film should not be opened, even under club conditions, until after the Obscene Publications Act (OPA) had been extended to include films (by the Criminal Law Act in 1977).

This, he believed, would allow the film to benefit from the requirement in the OPA that publications must be judged as a whole and that a defense of artistic merit was permitted.

Even then, one scene was edited before the film opened at the Gate Cinema Club in 1978, as a result of further legal advice. The cut was to remove a scene in which an adult woman tugs a young boy's penis, which seemed likely to constitute an indecent image of a child under the terms of the newly introduced Protection of Children Act.

In this slightly censored version the film continued to be shown for a number of years, without a BBFC certificate, in cinema clubs.

Cut for BBFC approved 1991 cinema release

The first attempt at reframing was considered unacceptably crude and damaging to the film. Therefore the scene was reworked in a specialist lab, using a more gradual zoom into the characters' faces.

At the time, the BBFC was also asked whether it would consider granting an 18 certificate for video release. However, given the greater likelihood of the film falling into the hands of children, or being viewed in parts rather than as a whole, the BBFC was unconvinced that the film's immunity to prosecution would be as strong on video. At the time, explicit sex was not permitted even at the R18 category and The Realm of the Senses was therefore regarded as better suited to cinema screenings where the circumstances of viewing were more able to be controlled

Cut for 2000 VHS

In 2000, the BBFC was again asked to look at the film for DVD release. By this time sexual portrayals at the 18 level had become gradually more explicit and recent public surveys had shown that the public felt the BBFC could afford to be more relaxed about sex for adults. Therefore, following on from recent decisions on films like The Idiots and Romance, The Realm of the Senses was passed 18 uncut for video and DVD release, subject once again to the optical reframing of one scene [showing a boy's penis being yanked].

Uncut for 2011 DVD/Blu-ray

The BBFC reconsidered the scene in which an adult woman briefly tugs a young boy's penis. The Board concluded that the tugging of the penis does not occur in a sexual context and is in no way sexualised. This scene was optically reframed or deleted on previous releases but was not considered to be indecent under the terms of the Protection of Children Act 1978 as currently applied. And so the scene was restored intact for this release.

Unrated

• 2011 Optimum Online
• 2011 Optimum RB Blu-ray + R2 DVD Combo at UK Amazon

The BBFC commented:

• Contains strong real sex, bloody mutilation and sexual fetish theme.
   
• In the Realm of the Senses contains... a scene in which an adult woman briefly tugs a young boy's penis. However, the tugging of the penis does not occur in a sexual context and is in no way sexualised. This scene was optically reframed or deleted on previous releases but was not considered to be indecent under the terms of the Protection of Children Act 1978 as currently applied. And so has been restored intact for this release.

US: The Producers Cut is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2009 Criterion RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2009 Criterion R1 DVD at US Amazon

NC-17

• 2009 BFI cinema release
• 2007 Nouveaux Oshima Boxset R2 DVD
• 2000 Nouveaux R2 DVD

• 1982 Virgin VHS

However the source used was missing 8s through print damage at reel changes

• The scene with the boy's penis has been completely deleted

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com. This Producer's Cut is missing about 6:22s of dialogue and narrative scenes compared with the Theatrical Version:

• At 18:38s, scene cut short by 1:13s
• At 28:32s, 14 second shot of couple's faces during sex missing
• At 1:03:22s, entire 1 minute 56 second scene (dialogue) missing
• At 1:10:12s, scene cut short by 38 seconds
• At 1:32:30s, scene cut short by 1 minute 4 seconds
• At 1:38:10s, beginning of scene (1 minute 2 seconds) missing
• At 34:38s, there is an additional shot lasting 12s not present in the cinema version

• 1991 cinema release

UK: The Theatrical Version was released with 10s of pre-cuts for:

• cinema club release

The cuts were:

• an image of an underage boy's penis being yanked has been edited. Originally removed and later cut by the BBFC via reframing. 10s of footage has been so altered. All of the hardcore imagery is intact.

In with the Flynns: Season 1 Episode 4: Wild at Heart

• 2012 2 Entertain video

• 2012 2 Entertain video

The Inbetweeners Movie  

Category cuts were required for a 15 rated cinema release. The film was uncut and 18 rated for DVD/Blu-ray. There also exists and 18 rated extended version.

• 2011 Channel 4 [Uncut theatrical + Extended] R2 DVD / RB Blu-ray] Combo at UK Amazon

See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com . The Writer's Cut provides an extra 3:50s of uncontentious material that is not essential but worth having.

• 2011 Channel 4 [Uncut theatrical + Extended] R2 DVD / RB Blu-ray Combo at UK Amazon

• 2011 Channel 4 R2 DVD
• 2011 cinema release

The BBFC commented:

The Inbetweeners Movie was originally seen by the BBFC in an unfinished version. The company was informed that the film was likely to receive an 18 classification but the preferred 15 classification could be achieved by making cuts in four scenes. These were:

• to remove an aggressive use of very strong language,
• to remove a particularly crude verbal sex reference (to urolagnia)
• and to reduce the explicitness of two scenes of sexual activity (one of self-fellatio and one of masturbation).

When the completed version of the film was submitted, the aggressive use of very strong language had been redubbed, the crude verbal sex reference had been removed, and the strong scenes of sexual activity had been reduced, by a mixture of cutting and reframing. The film was therefore classified 15 without further cuts.

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com :

• A scene showing Neil pleasuring an elderly dancer partner has been reframed above the waist and the woman's moans have been muted.
• A scene showing a male stripper self fellating and with a naked butt has been reframed to lose the detail.
• You're not fucking all right anywhere, you scrawny little cunt, was substituted by You're not fucking all right anywhere, you scrawny little shit.
• The following dialogue was deleted from a conversation at a party:
  Richard: I was DJing at this techno club, right? And this mental emo bird comes over to me and says, I want you to piss on me and then fuck me. So I pissed all over her. Neil: And then fucked her? Richard: No, she was covered in piss!

The Inbetweeners 2

BBFC advised category cuts were made for a 15 rated cinema and home video release. The cuts have continued to all worldwide releases so far.

Promotional Material

University life is not all it's cracked up to be. Will is finding it difficult to make friends at Bristol and Simon is struggling to cope in his relationship with Lucy. When Neil and Simon visit Will for an uneventful weekend they make the decision to travel to Australia to meet up with Jay who is having the time of his life on a mental gap year of sun, surf and sex. Or so he claims.

Once in Oz, the boys discover Jay's tales of wild times and super-stardom in Sydney aren't quite true. What a surprise! Will convinces them to embark on a real travelling experience and then the holiday really begins. There's unintentional proposals, singing round the camp fire, disgrace at a water park and a trip into the outback... will they survive ?

• 2015 Spirit Entertainment Limited R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2014 Channel 4 DVD RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2014 Channel 4 DVD R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2014 cinema release

The BBFC commented:

This film was previously seen for advice. The company was advised the film was likely to be classified 18 but that their preferred 15 could be achieved by making reductions to two scenes involving crude humour.

The BBFC further commented in the Annual Report covering 2014:

During postproduction, the distributor sought advice on how to secure their preferred 15 classification. The BBFC advised changes should be made to two scenes featuring strong nudity in a crudely humorous context.

Maybe the cut scenes tried to find their way back on to the disk as Deleted Scenes. But the BBFC were having none of it. The DVD/Blu-ray extra entitled Deleted Scenes was cut by 19m 54s. The BBFC explained:

Distributor chose to reduce the number of uses of very strong language and to reduce the detail in a scene in which one character urinates on another. Cuts were made in line with BBFC Guidelines and policy in order to achieve a 15 rating. An uncut 18 was available.

The same cut version has been used for all worldwide release, though the cut material is available as DVD extras and has made it on to Australian disks.

The Incident

Banned by the BBFC for 1968 cinema release. Passed 12 uncut for 2014 DVD.

Summary Notes

Stark melodrama about two thrill seeking tough guys who terrorize late-night passengers on a New York City train. The random victims are more concerned with their own problems than helping each other and pray that they won't be next. But it's going to take a lot more than prayer to end this nightmare of fear and violence. Film debut of both Martin Sheen and Tony Musante as the hoodlums.

• 2014 Simply Media R2 DVD at UK Amazon

• 1968 cinema release

The film was submitted twice but to no avail and the ban stood.

The Incredible 2-headed Transplant

Cut by the BBFC for an X rated 1971 release. Also originally cut in the US for a GP rating. Later uncut and R rated.

Summary Notes

Dr. Roger Girard is a rich scientist conducting experiments on head transplantation. His caretaker has a son, Danny, who, although fully grown, has the mind of child. One day an escaped psycho-killer invades Girard's home, killing Danny's father before being gunned down himself. With the maniac dying and Danny deeply unsettled by his father's death, Dr. Girard decides to take the final step and transplant the killer's head onto Danny's body. Of course, things go horribly wrong and the two-headed creature escapes to terrorize the countryside.

• 2015 Kino Classics (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2015 Kino Classics R1 DVD at US Amazon

From IMDb. Previously cut for a GP rating:

• Most notably the death of the retarded man's father with a shot of his bloody head from the garden rake and
• the murder of the biker has additional hits and shots of bikers face being bloody from the chain beating by the creature.

• 1971 cinema release

Indecent Behaviour 3

Independence Day

• ID4

The Extended Version/Special Edition was passed 12 uncut for:

• 2004 20th Century Fox R2 DVD
• 2001 20th Century Fox 2 Disc Special Edition (with Theatrical + Special Versions) R2 DVD at UK Amazon

The US release features Theatrical + Special Versions and is MPAA PG-13 Rated for:

• 2003 20th Century Fox R1 DVD at US Amazon

The additional material is uncontentious plot but is given the thumbs up in pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

• 2007 20th Century Fox R2 DVD
• 2001 20th Century Fox 2 Disc Special Edition with Theatrical + Special Versions R2 DVD
• 1998 20th Century Fox VHS
• 1996 cinema release

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Cut for a PG rated cinema release and home video until 2008. An uncut 12 rated version was released in 2012. In the US was controversially PG rated. A decision said to have spurred the introduction of the PG-13.

PG

• 2012 Paramount Indiana Jones Complete Adventures R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA PG Rated for:

• 2008 Paramount R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

The American decision to rate the film PG caused huge controversy in the US at the time.  In fact, the controversy over the PG rating (which was seen by many as the MPAA caving in to Spielberg and corporate pressure) was largely responsible for the introduction of the PG-13 certificate. 

• 2008 Paramount R2 DVD
• 2003 Paramount Trilogy R2 DVD
• 1992 CIC VHS
• 1986 CIC VHS
• 1984 cinema release

The BBFC cuts list for the film reads:

• In sacrificial Thuggee ceremony, remove entirely the tearing out of the young victim's heart, and reduce sight of it in High Priest's hand to one establishing shot only as he turns, having siezed it as if by magic
• All later shots of the pulsating heart must be removed except the final one when it burst into flames
• Greatly reduce terror of victim as he is lowered into fiery vortex, removing all prolonged camera emphasis on his screams as cage slowly descends by cutting away as soon as he disappears through trap door, after which his death must be over as soon as possible
• Reduce forced drinking of blood and brutal whipping of Indiana, and remove entirely the flogging of Shortie
• Reduce the line "leave him alone, you bastards!" to simply "leave him alone!"
• Also remove from the soundtrack Indiana's cries of agony as he writhes on ledge after drinking blood
• Remove close shots of Willie screaming as she is locked in cage and lowered towards the fire and reduce her sobs on the soundtrack and the sight of her suspended over flames.
• Greatly reduce fight between Indiana and overseer, removing in particular heavy punches to back, chest, and head, and reduce bone-crunching sound effects of all impact blows so they approximate to the sounds associated with old-fashioned fisticuffs
• Reduce the sequence where Indiana's cries out as his voodoo doll is burned in flames
• When Shortie burns the guard's chest with the torch, remove the sound of flesh scalding
• Also reduce to minimum sight of blood on roller after overseer's death.
• Continue to reduce violence on soundtrack, including screams of real pain as fight leads into final chase in the mine car
• Also reduce sounds of punches to High Priest's head on banging end of rope bridge
• Remove sight of High Priest's head cracking against rock face as he falls, and remove sounds of his body bouncing off the cliff twice more before he hits the water

Note, the Leave him alone you bastards line is heard in the 'behind the scenes' documentary on the recently re-released tape, although the line is still cut in the main film!

BBC broadcasts have also been the cut version. The BBC in fact consulted with the BBFC to ensure that they showed the officially sanctioned cut version.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

The film suffered a trivial cut after the initial cinema release to remove the word 'jewish'.

Summary Notes

When Dr. Henry Jones Sr. suddenly goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, eminent archaeologist Indiana Jones must follow in his father's footsteps and stop the Nazis.

• 2013 cinema release
• 1992 CIC VHS
• 1990 CIC VHS

See article from dvdcompare.net . In the initial theatrical release Walter Donovan points to a Chest of Gold Items and says to the Sultan of Hatay: donated by the finest Jewish families in Germany. In all subsequent releases, the word Jewish has been edited out of the dialogue.

• 1989 cinema release

Infernal Affairs III

• Infernal Affairs: End Inferno 3
• Mou gaan dou III: Jung gik mou gaan

The Director's Cut was passed 18 uncut for:

• 2005 Tartan R2 DVD at UK Amazon

There is a Hong Kong Theatrical Version that is 10 minutes shorter, but the missing plot makes it confusing. See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

Inferno

• Dario Argento's Inferno
• Infierno

Uncut version is available at:

Cut by the BBFC for cinema which was released on VHS and became a video nasty. Cut on 1987 VHS but uncut on UK DVD since 2010. Uncut in the US

Summary Review: My own favourite

This is my own favourite Argento movie, but if you try and work out the plot it will drive you nuts. It's best viewed as a dark and incredibly gory fairytale and companion-piece to Suspiria.

Irene Miracle becomes curious about the history of the old New York mansion block where she lives. Big mistake, but oh forget the logic. Just lap up the marvellous set-pieces: a swim through an underwater apartment (why is it flooded? don't even ask!), a witchy teenager and a cat who materialise during a music tutorial, a slasher murder set to the Slave's Chorus from Nabucco, a rat attack in Central Park.

The soundtrack is an audacious blend of Verdi and Keith Emerson. Sheer bliss.

Unrated

• 2013 Arrow RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2010 Arrow R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2010 Arrow 30th Anniversary Edition R0 DVD at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2015 Blue Underground Dario Argento Collection (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2011 Blue Underground R0 Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2011 Blue Underground Special Edition R0 DVD at US Amazon
• 2007 Blue Underground R0 DVD

• 1993 Fox VHS

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com . The BBFC cuts were:

• 2s cut as Sacha Pitoeff beats a cat against the side of a chair.
• 3 shots totalling 19s are cut of a cat eating a mouse.

Shown uncut on Zone Horror at the time

• 1987 1987 Film & Video VHS

• 1983 20th Century Fox VHS
• 1982 20th Century Fox VHS

The video which was listed as a video nasty in August 1984. It was dropped from the list in September 1985.

• 1980 cinema release

The Infiltrator

The Informers

• The Snout
• Underworld Informers

UK: an unknown version was passed 12 without BBFC cuts for:

• 2012 Spirit R2 DVD at UK Amazon

• 1963 cinema release titled The Informers
• 1963 cinema release titled The Snout

Inga: I Love Lust

• Inga
• Jag - en oskuld

See trailer from youtube.com

US: The Swedish Version is uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2012 Retro-Seduction Inga Collection R0 DVD at US Amazon

Summary Review:

Inga, a 17 year-old, is sent to live with a scheming aunt who wants her to become mistress of her rich neighbour. She falls for a common young man instead.

• 1970 cinema release

Inglourious Basterds

R Rated

UK: The International Version was passed 18 uncut for strong bloody violence for:

• 2012 Lions Gate Tarentino XX (RB) Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2009 Universal R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2009 Universal R2 DVD at UK Amazon

UK: The Theatrical Version was passed 18 uncut for:

• 2009 Universal Video
• 2009 cinema release

US: The Theatrical Version is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2012 Lions Gate Tarentino XX (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon

The Theatrical and International Versions differ only in using a different mix of spoken language and subtitles

Innocent Blood

• A French Vampire in America

The Unrated Version was passed 15 uncut for:

• 1995 Warner VHS
• 1993 Warner VHS

There is also an Extended German Version. See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

cut

R Rated

• 1992 cinema release

The following cuts are reported in an article from cosmos.net.au

• An early scene shows Marie biting a chunk of flesh out of Sallie's neck. This has been substituted for a more harmless bite.
• The fact that LaPaglia hand-cuffs Parillaud before engaging in simulated sex with her was of primary concern to the MPAA. Landis was most vocal that the MPAA made him cut the sex scene for domestic release in the US
• Strippers dancing in front of Sallie have been dropped from the R Rated Version
• One shot Landis had to trim featured LaPaglia jamming a gun into a vampire gangster's mouth and pulling the trigger. The back of the vampire's head flipped up a little - no blood, no brains.
• A shot of Sallie on fire has been deleted.

See Sagebrush Trail

Innocent Voices

• Voces inocentes

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: Company chose to remove strong expletive in order to attain a 12A category An uncut '15' was available.

Inseminoid

• Planet Terror
• Horror Planet

No censor cuts although a shortened version was released in UK cinemas. The video was seized by police during the video nasties moral panic.

Summary Notes

A group of scientists are working in a lab located on a distant planet. One of them, Sandy, is attacked, raped and impregnated by a monstrous creature. She then begins to stalk her colleagues one by one, killing them and drinking their blood.

MPAA

• 2005 Anchor Bay R2 DVD

• 1999 Sovereign/Stonevision/Quantum Leap R0 DVD at UK Amazon
• 1992 Vipco VHS
• 1987 Allied Vision VHS

US: Uncut and MPAA R rated for:

• 1999 Elite Entertainment R0 DVD at US Amazon

shortened

• 1981 cinema release

From IMDb:

The UK theatrical version ended with Mark being attacked by one of the alien babies, then cut straight to the end credits. Video and DVD releases feature the expanded ending, in which a rescue team discovers the aftermath of the attack.

• 1981 Brent Walker VHS

The video was seized subject to an Obscene Publications Act Section 3 Seizure Order. This is a legal gambit whereby victims admitted that the videos were 'obscene', and therefore subject to seizure, in return for that being the end of the matter and so avoiding an obscenity trial with the possibility of jail time.

Inside Deep Throat

NC-17

The Theatrical NC-17 Version was passed 18 uncut for strong real sex for:

• 2006 Technicolor/Momentum R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2005 cinema release

This is a documentary about Deep Throat, not the classic film itself. However t he UK release does contain a key 15 second hardcore sequence from the original oral sex scene in Deep Throat

Summary Review: Insightful

All I can say is wow, this was a great documentary. Because of the subject matter it isn't for everyone, and the fact that it has an actual X-rated scene in it doesn't help either. But if you can get past that, this is an insightful, fascinating look at adult films and our society. And there is a lot of humor in it as well.

I wasn't surprised that several people in the audience walked out, since even I didn't realize how graphic the language/visuals would be. Showing how Deep Throat brought the "BJ" into the mainstream of adult films was interesting, and the interviews with the people actually making porn were very insightful.

Inside

• À l'intérieur

Unrated

The BBFC passed the US Unrated Version 18 uncut for the 2010 Technicolor DVD.

There is also a cut US R Rated Version

The uncut region 2 DVD is available at UK Amazon
The uncut region 1 DVD is available via US Amazon

See article from movie-censorship.com :

Trailers reveal that the film will be released with regional variations. Most notable is the scene in which the father's feelings take a break by thinking about sport. In the US, they watch a hockey game while the UK version features a soccer game.

There's also  a scene in which the daughter is confronted with vegetables she doesn't like. While most countries will see that scene with broccoli that is not received well by the girl, the Japanese viewers will get to see that scene with green paprika which is probably liked even less by kids over there.

The Insomniac

Cut by the BBFC for an A rated cinema release. Unknown version released on BFI DVD/Blu-ray Combo with a 15 rating.

Summary Notes

A man experiences a night-time world that is part foreboding nightmare, part sexual fantasy

• 2013 BFI [Sleepwalker + The Insomniac] R0 Blu-ray/R0 DVD Combo at UK Amazon

• 1971 cinema release

See Hardcore 18s List: Interior. Leather Bar.

International Guerillas

• International Gorillay

Initially banned by the BBFC for 1990 cinema release but this decision was overturned on appeal. Then released with an 18 rating for cinema and VHS.

• 1990 Tooting VHS
• 1990 cinema release

• 1990 cinema release

See article from en.wikipedia.org : Vilifying Salman Rushdie

This Pakistani comedy seizes on the controversy where Muslims were wound up by Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses. Salman Rushdie is depicted in the film played by Afzaal Ahmad. He is portrayed as a criminal mastermind, working for an international organization devoted to destroying Islam.

The film was banned by the BBFC. The board cited the safety of Salman Rushdie as an argument for refusing the certificate, arguing that it could inflame some to violence.

Although the film portrayed Salman Rushdie very negatively, he opposed the ruling of the BBFC, arguing that:

As a writer, I am opposed in principle to the use of the archaic criminal laws of blasphemy, sedition and criminal libel against creative works, even in the case of a film which quite plainly vilifies me.

The ban was then overturned on appeal and the film was passed 18 uncut.

Rushdie later said:

If that film had been banned, it would have become the hottest video in town: everyone would have seen it.

While the film was a great hit in Pakistan, it enjoyed only a limited release in the West, where it went virtually unnoticed.

Uncut and rated 12 by the BBFC for infrequent strong language, suicide references.

The decisions is notable as it s a rare example of the word 'motherfucker' being allowed in a 12 rated video.

The BBFCInsight reveals:

There are three uses of strong language. All are written, with two appearing on banners at protest marches, reading fuck censorship and free speech motherfucker . Another use ('fuck up') is written on the subject of the documentary's t-shirt. All are seen only briefly.

Not cut by the BBFC but notable for the appearance of the word 'motherfucker' which is usually banned in a 12A rated film. The BBFC commented in the Annual Report covering 2014:

[The word 'motherfucker' is] briefly seen on a placard in the background of a shot showing street protests. The BBFC concluded that its occurrence in this context was less likely to cause offence than [when spoken].

The Internship

A US comedy with the inevitable Theatrical and Extended Versions. In this case the extra material features lots of bare breast and strong language that were clearly deleted for the PG-13 version.

Summary Notes

Two salesmen whose careers have been torpedoed by the digital age find their way into a coveted internship at Google, where they must compete with a group of young, tech-savvy geniuses for a shot at employment.

Unrated

• 2013 Twentieth Century Fox RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon

• 2013 20th Century Fox [Theatrical + Extended] R0 Blu-ray/R1 DVD Combo at US Amazon
• 2013 20th Century Fox R1 DVD at US Amazon

See  pictorial cuts details from  movie-censorship.com . The Unrated version features 5:38s of additional material featuring lots of strong language and naked breasts. The additional material is well worth having.

cut

PG-13

• 2013 Twentieth Century Fox R2 DVD
• 2013 cinema release

See Banned International: The Interview

Intimacy

• Intimidad
• Intimité

Unrated

16

Netherlands: Uncut and 16 rated for:

• NL R2 DVD at UK Amazon

UK: Passed 18 uncut with one notable scene of real oral sex for:

• 2001 Pathe R2 DVD via UK Amazon
• 2001 cinema release

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2004 Koch Lorber R1 DVD at US Amazon

Summary Review : Beautiful, sensitive erotic story

A failed London musician meets once a week with a woman for a series of intense sexual encounters to get away from the realities of life. But when he begins inquiring about her, it puts their relationship at risk.

I think this is an extra-ordinary cameo of a brief sexual affair between two strangers. If the sex scenes are controversial then I think it's because they are natural and realistic, contrasting with stylised sex in mainstream films. This is a beautiful, sensitive erotic story.

It is widely believed that the scenes of sexual intercourse between Rylance and Fox were unsimulated but they are in fact fake (though they look pretty realistic). The unsimulated sex comes with shots of fellatio occurring between the pair, the blow jobs were not faked!

Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan

• Ai nu

Cut for a cinema release in 1973.

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from US Amazon May 2008: Pretty Bloody

This is a very different type of Shaw Brothers martial arts film. It reminded me of Lady Snowblood, so if you liked that, then I would definitely recommend this.

Betty Tei Pei plays a brothel owner, and she is a very evil woman. She could care less about men, and only loves women. When she gets in a new batch of prostitutes, she meets one that she likes. Lily Ho plays the prostitute, and she's a tough little woman, which is why the Madam likes her so much. Yes, they do makeout, and it is awesome.

The story has Lily Ho taking revenge on all the men she had to sleep with when she first came to the brothel, and it's a pretty simple story.

The acting from Betty Tei Pei is AMAZING, and it is a good overall movie, and has an amazing ending. It's directed by Chor Yuen, and as expected, it is a beautiful film to look at. Chor Yuen worked very hard and put in a lot of detail to make sure that his movies had a unique look.

The swordplay is quite good for 1972, and it gets pretty bloody.

Intimate Games

UK: A short version was passed 18 without BBFC cuts for:

• 2008 Optimum R2 DVD

• 1976 cinema release

Intimate Stranger

US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2012 Image Horror Collection Extravaganza: 6 Terrifying Movies R1 DVD at US Amazon

Summary Review: For Debbie Harry fans

A struggling bar singer takes a job as a phone-sex operator in order to make ends meet. One night she gets a call from a man who tricks her into listening while he murders a prostitute. Then he tells her that he's going to kill her next.

The film is a must for Debbie fans. It's a rare lead role for her and she gets the chance to play a warm and sympathetic character.

It's just an average or maybe slightly above average cable slasher thriller. However Debbie is good in this and the scenes where she sings in the bar are worthwhile. Tim Thomerson is also notable for being quite disturbing.

• 1992 Lazer VHS

Intruder

• Night Crew: The Final Checkout

See trailer from youtube.com
 

Uncut version is available at:

Unrated

UK: The Director's Cut was passed 18 with previous BBFC cuts waived for:

• 2003 International Trading/Screen Entertainment R2 DVD via UK Amazon

US: The Director's Cut is MPAA Unrated for:

• 2011 Synapse R0 Blu-ray+DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 2005 Wizard R1 DVD at US Amazon

Ireland: The Director's Cut carried a note saying it was illegal in the rest of the UK for:

• Ie 1989 Colorbox VHS

Summary Review: Surprisingly good

Surprisingly good stalk 'n' slash movie from Scott Speigel (long time associate of director Sam Raimi) was probably the last true slasher flick of the '80's.

Grocery store workers are set to do the night shift when an uninvited guest drops in and the employees begin to be butchered.

An effective dark sense of humor, stylish camera work, and eye-popping gore FX uplifts this movie above the normal slasher fair. The cast isn't half bad, some even make for some quirky characters.

All around Intruder makes for great fun for the slasher fans, exactly how this gem managed to escape me for so long I don't know! Not for the faint of heart.

• 1989 Colorbox VHS

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com :

• The murder of Danny is missing a shot of a skewer in his eye and his quivering impaled body.
• The murder of Tim is missing shots of a knife in his gut, his pain wracked face and shots of blood splattering onto beer cans.
• Bob's murder is totally cut. His head being squashed in a machine press was way too much for the censor.
• Randy's murder is missing a shot of him hanging by a hook through his neck.
• Dave's murder was totally cut. Again his heady being cut in half by a machine saw was too much for the censor at the time.
• Further shots of Randy's hanging body were cut
• Dave's messed up head in a fridge was reduced to a brief shot
• Several hits are missing when Craig uses a cleaver on Bill, slicing into his hand and head.

Invasion

BBFC category cuts were required for a U rated 1965 cinema release

Promotional Material

Lawrence Blackburn, driving home in thick fog, brakes violently and swerves as a man of strange appearance suddenly looms into view. The stranger is knocked down and, bundling the body into his car, Blackburn takes him to his local hospital. Medical tests discover something extraordinary: the victim's blood is unidentifiable, and he has a radio-opaque disc in his brain. Upon regaining consciousness, he explains that he was escorting two prisoners from the planet Lystria when he crash-landed on Earth, and his prisoners escaped. But the terrifying truth is that he is a murderer, and his two female guards are now on his trail...

• 2014 Network R2 DVD at UK Amazon

• 1965 cinema release

Invasion for Flesh & Blood

• A sexual assault of a woman in a car has been removed. Originally the woman was forcibly stripped, forced to give head and finally stabbed to death
• A female corpse with blood on her breasts has been cut as per usual BBFC policy

The original video is available in the US on the EI Independent Cinema label #196. A review of this version in Flesh & Blood suggested that it contains an impressive count of male groin mutilations. I wonder if these have been lost at some stage during the UK release.

Invasion of the Blood Farmers

The film has only seen UK release on pre-cert VHS. The title was seized by police during the Video Nasties moral panic

Summary Notes

Somewhere in upstate New York, a young woman is terrorized by a group of rural farmers primarily interested in a harvest of blood.

MPAA

• 2011 Cheezy Films R0 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon released on 26th July 2011

• 1981 Rainbow VHS
• Videon VHS

The video was seized subject to an Obscene Publications Act Section 3 Seizure Order. This is a legal gambit whereby victims admitted that the videos were 'obscene', and therefore subject to seizure, in return for that being the end of the matter and so avoiding an obscenity trial with the possibility of jail time.

Invasion USA

• Chuck Norris: Invasion USA

See trailer from youtube.com

Uncut version is available at:

R Rated

Passed 18 uncut with previous BBFC cuts waived for:

• 2005 MGM R2 DVD at UK Amazon

The BBFC commented:

Time had diminished the power and impact to the extent that it was no longer likely to prove harmful and so previous cuts were waived

The US release is uncut and MPAA R Rated for:

• 2001 R1 DVD at US Amazon

Summary Review: Great actioner

The plot is insane. Random terrorists invade the USA; it is never explained who they are, what they are doing, or what they want. Scene after scene of terrorists attacking Americans playing baseball, celebrating Christmas, in a church follow. There is one scene where they just drive around a neighbourhood, firing a bazooka into each house!

However, wherever they appear, Norris appears son afterwards and guns them down with the famous double Macho 10's that Norris tots from a specially designed shoulder holster.

This is artful camp at its most skilled but this really is one fun movie. Chuck says little, which is probably a good thing and lets his feet and guns do the talking. Great actioner!

• 1986 MGM/UA VHS
• 1985 cinema release

BBFC cuts from IMDb:

• Cut to remove bullet impacts from a groin shooting
• Edited scene where a woman snorting cocaine through a straw is hit across the head by Rostov

Invincible Armour

• Ying zhao tie bu shan

UK: Passed 18 uncut for strong violence with previous cuts waived for:

• 2005 DVD.com R2 DVD

Summary Review: Balls

Hwang Jang Lee is a corrupt Ming guard who frames John Liu for murder. A wanted fugitive, John hides out with a teen who is an expert in the infamous Iron Armor technique, a technique that means the expert can withstand anything. However, Hwang is an expert in it as well as the Eagle Claw's.

Hwang Jang Lee and John Liu, two of the top three kickers in the business (the third being Delon Tam, Liu's instructor), tear up the screen in this film and that's what counts. My only complaint about the fight scenes is that there were too many distracting, split-second shots of shattered eggs every time someone attacked what they thought was Hwang's vulnerable point (his testicles, naturally).

This is a fun, straightforward flick that you'll enjoy if Hong Kong kung fu cinema is your thing.

• 2005 DVD.com DVD [Not released, uncut version was released instead]
• 1986 VPD VHS

Cut when the video was submitted in 1986 by Video Programme Distributors.

• A novelty of the film was to flash images of broken eggs when a guy gets hit in the balls. The BBFC weren't impressed and cut a couple of shots of Jang Lee Hwang being grabbed by the balls in the final fight.

The invincible Gladiator

• Il gladiatore invincibile

BBFC category cuts for a U rated cinema release in 1965. Uncut in the US

Summary Notes

A Roman warrior leads a revolt against an evil ruler.

• 2008 Alpha [Invincible Gladiator + Triumph of teh Son of Hercules] R0 DVD at US Amazon
• 2013 VoD at YouTube

• 1965 cinema release

Invitation to Hell

The BBFC cut the 1986 Senator video by 39s.

The uncut region 0 DVD is available at US Amazon
The uncut region 0 DVD is available via UK Amazon

See review from IMDb : Pretty bizarre

Pretty bizarre British schlock, wherein a girl is lured to a farmhouse in the country to become an unwilling participant in a Satanic ritual. There are several people staying in the house, and a few end up dying gory deaths or being possessed by a demon.

Badly shot, and the sound quality is occasionally muffled, but this has a surreal edge to it that got to me a bit (plus some moments of pretty strong gore). Also strange is the film's subtle gay-erotic undercurrent (a lengthy scene of two guys wrestling almost looks as though it might segue into a man-on-man porn scene).

Overall I would recommend this one to people who enjoy quirky low-budget horror obscurities.

See A Man for Emmanuelle

Iron Angels

• Angel
• Tian shi xing dong
• Angels
• Fighting Madam
• Midnight Angels

Cut by the BBFC for VHS. Banned in Australia put passed R on appeal.

Summary Notes

The Government lays waste to Thailand's Golden Triangle poppyfields' production, and the Drug Lord seeks vengeance on the police forces involved. For 10 million Swiss Francs, he even buys the services of Madame Sue, a ruthless killer, to dispose of the Iron Angels, a trio of highly trained agents in martial arts and gunfighting...

• Mei Ah R0 DVD at US Amazon

• 1995 Missing in Action VHS titled Angels
• 1994 Missing in Action VHS titled Iron Angels
• 1989 RCA/Columbia Pictures Video VHS titled Iron Angels

See Drunken Master Strikes Back

The Iron Fisted Monk

• San De huo shang yu Chong Mi Liu
• Saam Dak woh seung yue Chung Mai Luk

Cut by the BBFC when submitted in 2001 with the following comment:

Cuts were required to remove eroticising shots of the forced exposure and groping of breasts, and of volume of nudity of victim during a rape scene

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Review from US Amazon : Good Addition

Here is yet another excellent kung fu movie done by Sammo Hung. The fighting is outstanding consisting of multiple kung fu styles facing off against each other, all done with superior speed and precision. Also sword and other weapons battles round out the action. There are still a ton of fight scenes but not quite as many as some of his other films, probably short by just a couple. The story is good and has decent acting. It is done well enough to keep your interest throughout and contains some scenes not normally seen in these type of films (nude, rape, a whore house). I was quite surprised with the amount of nudity shown (female). This movie is definitely not for children.

The Iron Fisted Monk is definitely a good addition to any kung fu collection.

Iron Lord

• Yaroslav. Tysyachu let nazad

Passed 15 after 3s of BBFC cuts for:

• 2011 Revolver Online
• 2011 Revolver R2 DVD

The BBFC commented:

• A compulsory cut was required to a scene featuring animal cruelty (in this case, sight of a horse being made to fall in a dangerous manner).

Iron Maiden: The Best of the Beast

Cut by the BBFC for 1997 video release

• 1997 EMI VHS

• In opening sequence spelling IRON MAIDEN, remove all shots with head in a vice and spikes gouging cheeks and forehead.
• At 147 minutes, During clips from 1936 film Charge of the Light Brigade illustrating song 'The Trooper', remove 12 separate sequences of horses being tripped into forward falls.

Iron Man 3

Uncut in UK and US. Chinese Version famously is extended by 4 minutes of propaganda and product placement

PG-13

• 2013 cinema release

US: Rated PG-13 For sequences of intense sci-fi action and violence throughout, and brief suggestive content.

See article from hollywoodreporter.com :

Bloggers appear united in their consternation of the deliberate product placement that sees new a character named Dr. Wu (played by mainland Chinese actor Wang Xueqi) consume a carton of a local drink product named Gu Li Duo.

Not that audiences outside mainland China will get a glimpse of this, though: This scene is part of the film's China release, a version which is four minutes longer than the normal cut seen everywhere else in the world.

All of these additional sequences revolve around Chinese characters. There's Dr. Wu having a telephone conversation -- from his office in Beijing, in Chinese -- with the television behind him showing a news bulletin of Iron Man cheered by schoolchildren in one of the Chinese capital's landmarks.

And towards the end of the film, Dr. Wu is shown operating on Stark -- and then having a short conversation with his unnamed assistant about the task, which has been interpreted as suggesting that Chinese medicine is still the best! .

Iron Monkey

• Siu nin Wong Fei Hung ji: Tit Ma Lau

Passed 15 uncut for:

• 2011 Cine Asia Hong Kong Legends Ultimate Edition R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2004 Hong Kong Legends Platinum Edition R2 DVD
• 2001 Medusa/Hong Kong Legends R2 DVD
• 2001 Medusa/Hong Kong Legends VHS
• 1993 cinema release

Iron Monkey Strikes Back

• Jue dou Lao Hu Zhuang
• Duel at the Tiger Village
• Iron Monkey II
• Iron Monkey 2
• Tough Guy

Unrated

UK: Passed X uncut for:

• 1980 cinema release titled Tough Guy

US : Uncut and  MPAA Unrated for:

• 2002 tai Seng R0 DVD via UK Amazon and via US Amazon

Summary Review: Not a Sequel

A kung-fu fighting detective investigating the murder of the emperor's wife uncovers a high-ranking conspiracy.

This is a run of the mill Hong Kong Actioner. Donnie Yen is good, the action and fighting sequences are good, Yuen Wo Ping did design the fights. But the filming, editing, and overall quality are mediocre.

• 2001 Quantum Leap R0 DVD titled Iron Monkey Strikes Back

The BBFC commented:

• Compulsory cut made to dangerous imitable technique (an ear clap)

• 1986 Sheptonhurst VHS titled Tough Guy

Iron Sky

Exists in a Theatrical Version and a Director's Cut

Promotional Material

In 1945 the Nazis flew to the Dark Side of the Moon, and established a secret hideout, where they've been preparing for their grand return. The year is 2018, and the Americans return to the Moon in search for powerful energy source, Helium-3. They end up landing too close to the secret Nazi fortress, and although the big Nazi weapon "Götterdämmerung" is not yet ready to be deployed, soon the skies are full of iron, as the Nazi war machines take a pre-emptive move against threat from Earth.

MPAA

• 2014 4Digital Media Steelbook R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2014 4Digital Media R0 Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2014 4Digital Media R0 DVD at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA R rated for:

• 2014 Entertainment One Steelbook RA Blu-ray/R1 DVD at US Amazon

See  article from  movie-censorship.com : There is 17:21s of extra plot that makes for a better film

• 2012 Revolver DVD
• 2012 cinema release

Ironheart

• Iron Heart

Cut by the BBFC for 1993 18 rated VHS. Uncut for 15 rated 2015 DVD.

Summary Notes

An L.A. cop goes after a gang of murderous drug dealers.

• 2015 101 Films RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2015 101 Films R2 DVD at UK Amazon

• 1993 Imperial Entertainment (UK) VHS

Notably uncut by the BBFC

See BBFC case study explaining the uncut decision from bbfc.co.uk

Ishtar

Passed 15 with BBFC cuts waived for:

• 2004 Columbia/TriStar R2 DVD at UK Amazon

• 1992 VCI VHS
• 1988 RCA/Columbia VHS
• 1987 cinema release

The BBFC cuts were

• Cuts were to remove the word 'fuck'

Island of Death

• Ta Pedhia tou dhiavolou
• A Craving for Lust
• Cruel Destination
• Devils in Mykonos
• Island of Perversion
• Psychic Killer 2

Heavily cut for 1976 X rated cinema release. Banned as a very famous video nasty in 1983. Even a heavily cut version was banned for official BBFC approved release in 1987. Less cut for 2003 DVD and finally uncut for 2010 DVD.

Summary Review: Rough Diamond

Island of Perversion is a rough diamond from the deep seas of sickness, another gem from 1970s - the golden age of Grindhouse and exploitation! A film where you can still smell the dirt from the backyard and railway station cinemas it was shown in! But it´' a great one, I enjoyed every second of it!

The story is about two totally weird siblings who travel to Mykonos to free the peaceful Greek island from all those who are perverted scum in their eyes: gays, lesbians, nymphomaniacs, hippies... Unfortunately, the version that I watched was cut, so I didn't have the chance to see the notorious goat-rape!

Even though the violence is not that graphic in this film, the director seemed to be possessed by the ambition to make one of the most depraved movies ever! Loved the bad surprise ending!

Unrated

• 2015 Arrow R0 Blu-ray/R0 DVD Combo at UK Amazon
• 2010 Arrow R2 DVD at UK Amazon

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2015 Video Music/Arrow (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2003 Image R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 2003 Michael Lee/Vipco R2 DVD

The BBFC commented:

• The distributor was required to make several compulsory cuts to scenes of sexual violence, sexualised violence and a dehumanising sexual activity (urolagnia)

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com :

• The urination sequence was cut showing Christopher urinating on the naked Patricia
• Cut scene showing Christopher kicking Patricia and then banging her head on the floor
• A bathroom rape is mostly deleted showing two hippies trying to rape Jane.
• Significant amounts cut from Chris using a blazing spray can to burn the face of Lesley
• Cut scene showing Chris trying to rape a naked woman in the shower and then killing her with a sickle into her back that protrudes from her chest
• Significant cuts to a shepherd raping Jane in a bar with Chris watching. And later the shepherd raping Chris

pre-cut
13:00s

• 1987 Hologram VHS titled Psychic Killer 2

• 1982 AVI VHS titled Island of Death

Island of Death was released in November 1982 and briefly appeared on the video nasties list in November 1983 but was deleted by the next issue. There may have been a confusion with another film with the same name by Narcisco Ibanez Serrador. The video returned to the list in October 1985 and remained on the list throughout so becoming one of the collectable DPP39s

• 1976 cinema release titled A Craving for Lust

The Island of Dr. Moreau

See trailer from youtube.com

US: The Director's Cur is MPAA Unrated for:

• 2012 Newline R0 Blu-ray via UK Amazon and at US Amazon
• 1997 Newline R1 DVD via UK Amazon and at US Amazon

From IMDb:

The film was originally rated R but it was cut to PG-13 for the theatrical version so as to catch a wider audience

The director's cut contains 4 extra minutes of footage including an expanded intro in the Java sea, a more gruesome end for The Father, and other small enhancements

Summary Review: Sorting out the mess

Set in the year 2010, Dr. Moreau (Brando) has successfully combined human and animal DNA to make a crossbreed animal. Inevitably something goes wrong and David Thewlis must step in to sort out the mess. Perhaps a bit like director John Frankenheimer being asked to step in to sort out the film after personality clashes got the previous director the sack.

The movie was well trashed by initial reviewers but more latterly reviewers have started to find the good things in amongst the mess.

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PG-13

• 2000 EIV R2 DVD
• 1998 cinema release
• 1997 EIV VHS

The Island of Dr. Moreau

Cut for a US PG rating and further cut by the BBFC for an A rated 1977 cinema release. The BBFC cuts were restored for 1987 15 rated VHS, and 2008 12 rated DVD. The rating was increased back to 15 for 2014 Blu-ray

Summary Notes

A ship-wrecked man floats ashore on an island in the Pacific Ocean. The island is inhabited by a scientist, Dr. Moreau, who in an experiment has turned beasts into human beings.

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Unrated

MPAA

• 2014 101 Films RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon

Presumably this is rated 15 under a scheme whereby distributors can opt for an historic rating at a discount fee rather than submit the film for a more expensive full viewing that would have resulted in a 12 rating.

UK: The cut US PG rated version was passed 12 for moderate violence and threat without BBFC cuts for:

• UK 2014 RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• UK 2008 R2 DVD at UK Amazon

• 1987 Guild VHS

• 2015 Kl Studio Classics (RA) Blu-ray at US Amazon

US : The film was cut in the US for a PG rating on DVD

• 1977 cinema release

Thanks to Vincenzo. The BBFC cuts were:

• Reel 6 - The killing by Andrew of the mutant who attacks him in the boat was reduced, in particular sight of him grinding pole in off-screen mutant's eye and subsequent sight of bloody end of pole were removed.

Island of Fire

• The Prisoner
• Huo shao dao
• Jackie Chan Is the Prisoner

The Hong Kong Version was passed 18 without BBFC cuts for:

• 2000 Medusa/E1 R2 DVD
• 1995 Imperial VHS
• 1993 Imperial VHS

There is also a longer and easier to understand Taiwan Version. See pictorial version details from movie-censorship.com

Island of Greed

• Hak gam
• Hei jin

Cut when submitted in 2002 with the following BBFC comment: Compulsory cuts required to animal cruelty

Island of Lost Souls

Over 80 years of history the film hit the full range of BBFC milestones: banned (1933), X with cuts (1958) , 12 uncut (1996) and PG (2012)

Summary Review: Mad Doctor Doctoring Animal

The story sees Edward Parker (Richard Arlen) shipwrecked on an isolated South Seas island, where he discovers Dr Moreau (Charles Laughton) is conducting sadistic experiments to transform animals into humans

Unrated

• 2012 Eureka Masters of Cinema Limited Edition Steelbook RB Blu-Ray/R2 DVD at UK Amazon
• 2012 Eureka Masters of Cinema RB Blu-Ray/R2 DVD at UK Amazon

See  article from  bbc.co.uk . Robin Cooke explained:

Our view now is that if you compare it with the PG Harry Potters let alone the 12A Harry Potters or the PG Doctor Who it looks quite tame in comparison.

UK: Passed 12 uncut with previous cuts restored for:

• 1996 Visionary VHS

US: Uncut and MPAA Unrated for:

• 2011 Criterion RA Blu-ray at US Amazon
• 2011 Criterion R1 DVD at US Amazon

• 1958 cinema release

Thanks to Vincenzo. The BBFC cuts were:

• Reel 3 - Remove Parker's line: "They're vivisecting a human being... cutting a living man to pieces."
• Reel 4 - Remove the shots of men working a treadmill and the comment "some of my less successful experiments."
• Reel 8 - Remove all shots of beast men and Moreau after he has been forced back, standing against the outside wall. Remove all shots of Lota struggling with beast man after she has first leapt on him.

• 1957 cinema release
• 1933 cinema release

See  article from  bbc.co.uk . Robin Cooke explained:

The precise reasons for its rejection in 1933 were lost when BBFC records were destroyed during World War II.

There are themes to do with vivisection, animal experimentation and animal hybrids and it looks as though that was regarded as completely beyond the pale in 1933. In 1932, an H for horror category had been introduced but Island of Lost Souls wasn't even regarded as suitable for that.

There was no one set of guidelines from the early days . Some of them are very alien from the kind of things we would have now. Things like no mixed bathing, no lascivious dancing.

Island of Mutations

• Screamers
• Island of Fishmen
• Something Waits in the Dark
• L'isola degli uomini pesce

Uncut for UK cinema release. Shortened for pre-cert video.

Summary Notes

Aquatic creatures threaten the existence of a mysterious island.

• 1979 cinema release

• 1980 Vipco VHS

From IMDb. The tape is noticeably absent of:

• Jose discovering the underground ship and being knocked out by Rackham's henchmen
• Claude being beaten up, force-fed a Voodoo potion and suffering a nightmare.

After a poorly-received release in the US as Something Waits In The Dark , New World Pictures re-released it as Screamers , with a completely new (and mis-leading) marketing campaign promising You will actually see someone turned inside out... while he's still alive! , with a newly-filmed trailer featuring just that. Though this scene was not in the actual film, New World were forced to splice the actual footage from the trailer into all existing theatrical prints, after riots occurred by angry drive-in customers who were mis-lead.

See The Young One

Island of Terror

Cut by the BBFC for all X rated 1966 cinema release and PG rated 1995 VHS, 2004 DVD. The 2014 DVD/Blu-ray release is uncut

Summary Notes

A small island community is overrun with creeping, blobbish, tentacled monsters which liquefy and digest the bones from living creatures. The community struggles to fight back.

• 2014 Odeon Entertainment RB Blu-ray at UK Amazon
• 2014 Odeon Entertainment R2 DVD at UK Amazon

Germany: The Export Version is uncut for:

• R2 DVD at UK Amazon

Thanks to geodu486 who reported that the UK Blu-ray includes the hand chopping scene.

• 2004 Leisureview R2 DVD
• 1995 Arthouse VHS

• 1966 cinema release

See pictorial cuts details from movie-censorship.com

• The film was cut to remove the scene showing West chopping off Stanley's Hand

Note that some commentators contend that the effects of the hand amputation are tacky and the film is better off without them.

See Melon Farmers Video Hits: Island of Mutations

The Isle

• Seom

Cut in 2006 with the following BBFC comment: The cuts were Compulsory. Cuts required to remove sight of animal cruelty in accordance with BBFC policy

The uncut region 1 DVD is available at US Amazon

Candidate scenes for the BBFC cuts from Sam:

• filleting of a fish for sushi while the fish is still alive, as noted
• a shot of a fish being jolted with electrodes
• there is one short shot [about 1s] of a dog being hit
• various shots of fish being hacked up whilst clearly still alive
• a few shots of fish swimming around with large chunks missing from
  them
• a shot of a bird flapping about in a cage whilst underwater
• some shots of a frog being hit with a stick and skinned

All in all, these shots are quite unnecessary, though some people like to think the pain the animals feel links quite poignantly with the pain the humans feel in the film and that though the pain the animals experience is quite temporary, the humans' pain is ultimately more drawn out and prolonged. Not that this justifies the scenes in any real sense.

Review: Sadomasochistic Love Story

The Isle concerns a lonely, beautiful young woman who works at a remote fishing area. People rent small houseboats on a large lake and spend the night. The woman travels out to the boats each day to do the housekeeping, bring them bait and other rations, and to give them sex if they want it. One day a lonely young cop rents a boat...but he seems beyond despair and suicidal. When he tries to kill himself by ingesting 5 large fish hooks, the woman saves him. So begins the most bizarre sadomasochistic love story of all time. The cop gets to return the favour when the woman, upset that all she is to men is a sex object, successfully inserts the same 5 hook arrangement into her vagina.

Review from Stuart: Pretty  Good

I saw it back in March at the Brussels International Fantasy Film Festival and whilst I can't remember any dogs being kicked there was definitely
scenes of:

• filleting fish to eat for sushi whilst the fish was still alive (the fillet is eaten as the fish flops around)
• a guy eating fish hooks (lots of blood) and having them removed
• the woman inserting hooks into her vagina (a LOT of blood)
• the underwater shot of the guy taking a crap does happen
• there's quite a violent sex scene

All in all, it's a pretty good film but rather slow (despite the above). Low budget (which shows) but nicely shot. Bloody bizarre ending though...

It Takes a Thief

• The Challenge

Unknown version passed 12 without BBFC cuts for:

• 2011 Renown R2 DVD

• 2007 Orbit R2 DVD

• 1960 cinema release

The submitted running time was noted as 95:25s =  91:36s PAL

See Manhunt in Milan

Italian for Beginners

• Italiensk For Begyndere

Exists in 3 versions. The original film festival version, A short US Theatrical Version and an even shorter US DVD Version.

Summary Notes

Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives.

shortened

• 2003 Twentieth Century Fox R2 DVD at UK Amazon

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

A Preview or Roadshow Version was premiered but soon shortened for Theatrical Release. There is an Extended Version on US Criterion Blu-ray that restores much of the material removed in the shortening process

Summary Notes

After a long prison sentence Smiler Grogan is heading at high speed to a California park where he hid $350,000 from a job 15 years previously. He accidentally careens over a cliff in view of four cars whose occupants go down to help. The dying Grogan gives details of where the money is buried and when the witnesses fail to agree on sharing the cash, a crazy chase develops across the state.

• 1963 cinema release

Britain held the premiere, so presumably this was the long Roadshow Version. The BBFC noted a running time of 240:50s but this included music played before, after, and in an intermission.

• 2014 Criterion Collection RA Blu-ray/R1 DVD Combo at US Amazon

• 2001 MGM R2 DVD
• 1988 Warner VHS