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Crocodile Dundee is a 1986 Australia comedy adventure by Peter Faiman.
Starring Paul Hogan, Linda Kozlowski and John Meillon.

The shortened International Version was cut for strong language. This was released in the UK without further cuts for a 15 rated cinema release in 1986. However BBFC category cuts were required for 15 rated VHS. These video cuts were waived for the DVD release of the International Version. In 2025 modern sensitivities resulted in transgender jokes being cut for a version entitled The Encore Cut.

Thanks to Jon who writes:

Channel Five broadcast without any announcements - CROCODILE DUNDEE: THE ENCORE CUT (this is now the main onscreen title) - at 3:10pm on Sunday 7th Sep 2025.

I thought it odd, when their version started with an on-screen notification about Rimfire Films (the production company of CRICODILE DUNDEE) paying homage to Australia's traditional custodians where the film was made, along with notes about the film containing scenes of deceased persons to Torres Strait Islanders. (That'll be referring to actor David Gulpilil who played Neville.) Such a note doesn't appear in any previous version if the film, and is a modern Australian trend, that only started about 5-8 years ago.

Five gave a brief verbal warning about the film containing mildly offensive language and mild violence, but that was it. I'm surprised Five were broadcasting this version when it's not been officially released to UK cinemas or home viewing formats.

P.S. No idea if more cuts were made to the film for content reasons, by Five for its Sunday afternoon time slot, but seeing as the controversial scenes involving the Trans actor have already been removed by Rimfire themselves, there shouldn't be too much other content (bar the brief misuse of drugs scene, and two f-words) that needed censoring. I did note that: the word bugger was cut from the audio in the post-opening-credits bar scene, but the word was left intact on the subtitles!

The new print looks stunning, even if it was only broadcast in HD, not 4K.

Carry On Up The Jungle is a 1970 UK comedy adventure by Gerald Thomas
Starring Frankie Howerd, Sidney James and Charles Hawtrey

BBFC category cuts were required for 1970 cinema release.

Summary Notes

Lady Evelyn Bagley mounts an expedition to find her long-lost baby. Bill Boosey is the fearless hunter and guide. Prof. Tinkle is searching for the rare Oozalum bird. Everything is going swimmingly until a gorilla enters the camp.

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uncut run: 90:29s pal: 86:52s		UK: Uncut and BBFC PG rated: 2003 Carlton Visual Entertainment /ITV Studios Home Entertainment R2 DVD at UK Amazon #ad   2025 ITV Studios Home Entertainment Amazon VoD [UK] at UK Amazon #ad 2001 Video Collection International DVD (rated 28/09/2001) 1986 Video Collection International VHS (rated 04/08/1986) It is not clear if cinema cuts persisted to video releases
cut:   run: 89m pal: 85m		UK: BBFC A (PG) rated after BBFC cuts: 1970 Rank Film cinema release (rated 21/01/1970) Thanks to Vince. The BBFC cuts were: Reel 2 - Remove dialogue line I like to penetrate into parts where man has never been before . Reel 10 - Remove dialogue line I'm not waiting till mine wears off.

The Sons of Great Bear is a 1966 East Germany/Yugoslavia western drama by Josef Mach
Starring Gojko Mitic, Jirí Vrstála and Rolf Römer

BBFC animal cruelty cuts were required for 2025 Blu-ray release.

Summary Notes

Whites expel Dakotas from Black Hills after finding gold, defying treaty. Chief's son Tokei-ihto rejects barren reservation after his father's murder. Out of prison, he leads tribe's flight to Canada, confronting murderer Red Fox.

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cut:   run: 91:41s pal: 88:01s

UK: BBFC 12 rated with a trigger warning for moderate violence, discrimination with a trigger warning for moderate violence, discrimination after BBFC cuts: 2025 Eureka Entertainment Limited Edition (RB) Blu-ray at UK Amazon #ad The BBFC commented: Compulsory cuts required to remove scenes of unsimulated animal cruelty (horses being caused to fall using trip wires)..

A string of bands have pulled out of a music festival hours before they were due to perform after Irish folk band The Mary Wallopers said that their mics were cut off for displaying a Palestinian flag.

The Last Dinner Party, Cliffords and The Academic announced on Saturday that they would no longer be performing at Portsmouth's Victorious festival.

The organisers, who initially claimed The Mary Wallopers had their set cut on Friday for using a discriminatory chant, have since issued an apology to the band. They also pledged to make a substantial donation to humanitarian relief efforts for the Palestinian people.

Rock band The Last Dinner Party said they were boycotting the festival saying that they were outraged by the decision made to silence The Mary Wallopers and accused the organisers of political censorship.

Following The Mary Wallopers' set, a spokesperson for Victorious said: We spoke to the artist before the performance regarding the festival's long-standing policy of not allowing flags of any kind at the event, but that we respect their right to express their views during the show.

The festival initially issued a misleading reason as to their actions but a video clearly showed a Victorious crew member coming on stage, removing the flag from the stage and then the sound being cut following a chant of 'Free Palestine.

As bands announced they would no longer perform at the festival, the organisers issued another statement describing The Mary Wallopers as a fantastic band, they said:

We didn't handle the explanation of our policies sensitively or far enough in advance to allow a sensible conclusion to be reached.

This put the band and our own team in a difficult situation which never should have arisen. We would like to sincerely apologise to all concerned.

We absolutely support the right of artists to freely express their views from the stage, within the law and the inclusive nature of the event. Our policy of not allowing flags of any kind, which has been in place for many years for wider event management and safety reasons, is not meant to compromise that right.

We accept that, although mics remained live for longer, sound for The Mary Wallopers' audience was cut as described in the band's video and that comments after that were not audible to the public.

T he British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has published its Annual Report for 2024, marking a 112-year-record for cinema film submissions. The report reveals significant achievements in advancing audience protection and delivering trusted age ratings across cinema, packaged media and video on demand (VOD) and streaming services, as well as pioneering developments in the use of AI for content classification.

Cinema classifications

In 2024, the BBFC classified 1,256 feature films for cinema, a 13% increase from 2023, and the highest number of submissions in the organisation's history. As in previous years, the most frequently issued age rating was 15, which was applied to 41% of cinema submissions. In contrast, the 18 classification was issued to 4% of all cinema films, remaining the least common rating.

The increase came as the BBFC implemented revised Classification Guidelines in May 2024. Shaped by extensive feedback from 12,000 people across the UK, these updated Guidelines reflect shifts in audience expectations, particularly regarding the classification of sex scenes at the 12/15 border, violence across the categories, and certain depictions of drug misuse. Participants reported depictions of sexual violence as their primary concern, followed by scenes of suicide and self-harm. Additionally, this research highlighted parents' worries about the potential normalisation of bad language for young children, especially terms with sexual or misogynistic connotations.

The Guidelines research also found that BBFC age ratings remain trusted and valued by audiences, with 97% of respondents seeing a benefit to age ratings, and 90% of parents saying that they trust BBFC age ratings all or most of the time. This research is carried out every four to five years to ensure BBFC standards continue to reflect UK audience expectations.

Packaged media

While total packaged media submissions (DVD and Blu-ray) marginally declined by 1% year-on-year, the total number of minutes classified increased by 11%, reaching 176,004 in 2024, up from 158,159 in 2023. This growth was driven by a remarkable surge in anime titles, which accounted for 38% of all packaged media classifications in 2024 203 up from 25% the previous year.

Partnerships with VOD and streaming services

As part of the BBFC's mission to protect audiences and help them make informed viewing decisions, the BBFC continued to work to extend the use of its trusted age ratings on VOD and streaming services. In 2024, the BBFC worked with 35 VOD platforms and strengthened its partnerships with the UK's leading services. Last July, the BBFC announced a four-year extension of its self-rating partnership with Netflix through to 2028, meaning that Netflix will continue to carry BBFC age ratings and content advice on 100% of its UK catalogue for years to come.

The partnership, which began in 2019, allows Netflix to generate age ratings and content advice in line with BBFC standards, ensuring that its UK users have access to trusted guidance when choosing what to watch. BBFC age ratings also power Netflix's parental controls, allowing parents to limit their children's access to age-inappropriate content.

In September 2024, the BBFC announced the commencement of a pilot to establish a new self-rating partnership with Prime Video. Following the successful completion of the pilot in July 2025, Prime Video can now generate BBFC age ratings and content advice in-house, marking a major step forward in delivering clarity and protection to UK audiences. With Ofcom's forthcoming video-on-demand code on the horizon, these voluntary, best practice partnerships reflect a shared commitment to empower viewers with reliable, transparent age ratings while safeguarding children from potentially harmful content. They also address consumer demand, as according to BBFC Guidelines research, 81% of people want streaming content to be classified in line with the same standards used for cinema and packaged media.

AI and technological innovation

In 2024, the BBFC advanced its AI-powered compliance tool, CLEARD, and established BBFC Technology, a dedicated new entity to support this innovation. CLEARD has been developed in collaboration with international regulators and partners to make it easier for digital platforms to adopt BBFC age ratings quickly, accurately, and at scale. Combining compliance data with AI and machine-learning algorithms, CLEARD generates trusted, localised age ratings and content advice for use on VOD and streaming services across multiple countries from a single human compliance viewing. This means more trusted BBFC age ratings for UK audiences on more online platforms.

BBFC Technology's development of CLEARD reflects the BBFC's ongoing commitment to supporting the film and TV industry in line with its core mission of empowering UK audiences to make informed viewing decisions. This initiative will not only make BBFC age ratings more cost-effective and accessible for streaming services, but any revenue generated will be reinvested into the BBFC's statutory classification services, ultimately helping to reduce the cost of classification for the film and entertainment industry.

Natasha Kaplinsky OBE, President of the British Board of Film Classification, said:

2024 was the BBFC's 112th year of helping people across the UK view what's right for them 203 and what a remarkable year it was. We classified more cinema features than ever before, and we have made significant progress towards extending the coverage of trusted BBFC age ratings on streaming services through new deals with Prime Video and Netflix. We launched our revised Classification Guidelines 203 ensuring that the standards we apply when classifying content continue to reflect the views of UK audiences. Perhaps most exciting of all, we have continued our pioneering work with AI, ensuring that the BBFC remains at the forefront of film and digital content regulation. It has been a genuine privilege to lead the organisation at such an exciting and transformative time.

David Austin OBE, Chief Executive of the British Board of Film Classification, added:

Once again, 2024 has demonstrated the film industry's resilience and adaptability in the face of ongoing challenges. Despite disruptions to the release schedule caused by Hollywood strikes in 2023, as well as the sad news of cinema closures across the UK, it was encouraging to see such a rich and diverse selection of films reaching UK screens. From Deadpool & Wolverine to Wicked, All of Us Strangers to The Substance, 2024 offered plenty to remind us all of why we love going to the cinema. The year also saw an increase in the volume of content submitted to the BBFC for classification. We classified a total of 1,256 cinema features across 2024, which marks an all-time record and demonstrates that after more than a century of content classification, the BBFC's work remains just as vital as ever.

Mates For Pleasure (Le jouisseur) is likely a 1975 France/West Germany sex comedy by Jesús Franco
Starring Fred Williams, Lina Romay and Pamela Stanford    

Banned by the BBFC for 1975 cinema release.

Thanks to Mike who researched a previously unrealised ban of a Jess Franco film

Cinecenta, the prospective distributors of Le jouisseur, were mainly specialising in French porn films at the time of this ban.

They had the rights to 2 French soft-core films with extremely similar titles in 1975. Both of these films were released in France on the same day, June 11 ^th 1975:

• Les jouisseuses (Lucien Hustaix, 1975) which translates as The Pleasure Seekers

• Le jouisseur (Jess Franco, 1975) which translates as The Pleasure Seeker

The company also had the rights to The Gatekeeper's Daughter which was rejected only 6 days later on 17/11/1975. They managed to sneak Les Jouisseuses past the BBFC with cuts. If the BBFC database is correct, this was in February 1975, 4 months before its French cinema release. This submission was under the original French title.

When they came to submit Le Jouisseur (the Franco film) later in the year they clearly had to change the title to avoid confusion with their other film. So they gave it an English title and changed it slightly to make clear that it was a sex film. The Pleasure-Seeker wouldn't have conveyed that, but Mates for Pleasure does.

Coincidentally, they did exactly the same thing when they submitted L'Essayeuse to the BBFC in the following year. They used an English title and since The Trier means very little they gave it the more alluring title of She Tries Every Man . That was rejected too of course.

Incidentally, the treatment of these two similarly-titled films shows how censorship standards changed between the Stephen Murphy and James Ferman eras. Murphy passed Les Jouisseuses in February 1975 and Ferman rejected Le Jouisseur in November 1975. Ferman would also have rejected Les Jouisseuses (the Hustaix film) had it been submitted to him. Although it's a fairly silly sex comedy which was probably hard to take seriously even at the time, the basic premise concerns a scientist who discovers a molecule with causes sexual excitation. This passes around in pill form in the film, and there are numerous examples of characters slipping pills into other people's drinks and causing them to lose control and have sex with whoever is around when they otherwise wouldn't. So none of the sex is consensual.

So Mates for Pleasure is Le Jouisseur (Jess Franco, 1975). This may have been Ferman's first experience of a Franco film, and he rejected many of them subsequently.

The plot -- Count Roland loses interest in his new wife who turns out to run a porn company and approaches sex too clinically. (She refuses to sleep with him on their wedding night before measuring his dimensions and checking that he's free of STDs). While she's on a business trip he leaves and rediscovers his playboy past, accompanied by his manservant. This mainly involves sleeping with as many women as possible.

The whole thing is played for humour but there would have been several problem areas for the BBFC:

1. We're shown a flashback to his first sexual experience when he seduced the family's maid by showing her his penis. A voiceover tells us that he was 15 at the time.

2. The count's first conquest is the 15 year-old virginal daughter of a wealthy industrialist. This part of the story lasts for more than 30 minutes and the BBFC would likely have taken exception to all of it. He flies a helicopter close to her house so that he can spy on her sunbathing nude on the verandah, peers through her window while she pleasures herself, and poses as a butler so that he can have sex with her during a house party. The actress was clearly over 18, but the BBFC have never liked age play in sex films.

3. There is a conversation between three characters which involves a verbal misunderstanding. The girl's father says that he's been having sex with a female for 10 years already. Everyone thinks (wrongly) that he's referring to his (then) 15 year-old daughter. It does get resolved eventually, but the audience is given several minutes to think about the less savoury interpretation.

4. Rape is featured in a flippant way throughout. Two different women threaten the count that they will accuse him of rape unless he has sex with them, and the industrialist tells his young daughter that she would enjoy being raped.

5. One of the count's later conquests involves a character played by Lina Romay. They first meet when she gives a graphic striptease performance in a club, complete with zooms and close-ups of genital areas.

6. Romay's character tells us that her breasts are covered in glitter, but in fact it looks much more like they're covered in bruises. This is significant as her breasts appear quite frequently in the rest of the film.

7. There's a rather seedy atmosphere in the last part of the film due to all of the sex scenes being watched by voyeurs. At one point the voyeurs are spotted and they are rendered unconscious by being bashed over the head with a cosh. These scenes of violence are intercut with the sex scenes.

8. The BBFC would not have liked the excessive focus on sex toys. Vibrators, dildos and novelty condoms are shown and used repeatedly.

9. The generally misogynistic atmosphere -- the female characters are frequently referred to as whores, sluts and cunts.

To Kill a War Machine is a 2025 UK documentary by Hannan Majid, Richard York
Starring Huda Ammori, Richard Barnard and Shezana Hafiz

Originally uncut and BBFC 15 rated for a 2025 cinema release, but was banned a month later following the UK government ban of the campaign group Palestine Action.

Summary Notes

A documentary about the activist group Palestine Action.

Versions

banned run: 78:17s pal: 75:09s		UK: Banned by BBFC 2025 Rainbow Collective cinema release (rated 04/07/2025) The BBFC commented: To Kill a War Machine is a British documentary about the group Palestine Action, who were proscribed under the Terrorism Act 2000 with effect from 5 July 2025. The film was originally classified 15 uncut for cinema release on 5 June 2025, before the group was proscribed. Given the proscription of the organisation, and in accordance with legal advice, further distribution or exhibition of To Kill a War Machine is likely to constitute an offence under the Terrorism Act 2000. As such, the classification for this film was revoked on 4 July 2025. BBFC Guidelines and policy state that we will not classify material which is in breach of the criminal law. The film makers, Rainbow Collective, also took down an online release, saying in a statement: Following the vote in the House of Commons on 2nd July 2025 to proscribe Palestine Action, Rainbow Collective have taken the difficult decision to temporarily take down the online version of our film, To Kill a War Machine and authorise no further screenings of the film until further notice. As filmmakers with 20 years of experience documenting movements for social justice around the world, we produced To Kill a War Machine independently, within the law and had it certified for cinema release by the BBFC. The film itself does not become illegal, as it was produced and edited prior to proscription. However, future distribution of anything which could be interpreted as showing sympathy for or inviting support for a proscribed organisation will become illegal. It has always been Rainbow Collective's intention to tell critical and truthful stories with integrity. We never want our documentaries to expose our audiences or communities to danger from the state and, as such, the film will remain unavailable until we have absolute legal assurance that it can be distributed within the law.
uncut run: 78:17s pal: 75:09s		UK: Uncut and BBFC 15 rated for images of real dead bodies and injury, criminal behaviour: 2025 Rainbow Collective cinema release (rated 05/06/2025 but banned from 04/07/2025)

Night School (aka Terror Eyes) is a 1981 US slasher by Ken Hughes.
With Leonard Mann, Rachel Ward and Drew Snyder.  

Cut by the BBFC for an X rated 1981 cinema release. Released uncut on pre-cert VHS only to be banned as a video nasty. Cut by the BBFC for an 18 rated 1987 VHS. The BBFC finally passed the film uncut with an 18 rating for 2025 Blu-ray. Uncut and MPAA R rated in the US.

Summary Notes

A Boston police detective investigates a series of gruesome decapitations of various college coeds commited by a helmeted, black-leather clad serial killer which leads him to suspect a well known anthropology professor as well as his female live-in assistant.

Versions

uncut run: 88:35s pal: 85:02s		UK: Uncut and BBFC 18 rated for strong bloody violence, injury detail: 2025 Warner Bros (RB) Blu-ray (rated 06/03/2025) at UK Amazon #ad titled Night School US: Uncut and MPAA R Rated for: 2017 Warner R0 Blu-ray titled Night School at US Amazon 2011 Warner R1 DVD-R titled Night School via UK Amazon and at US Amazon US Amazon Video (US only) titled Night School at US Amazon
cut cut: 1:16s run: 87:03s pal: 83:34s		UK: Passed 18 after 1:16s of BBFC cuts for: 1993 Vipco VHS 1987 Guild VHS The BBFC cuts were: stabbings and girls being threatened with knives during the changing room and cafe murders
uncut run: 88:28s pal: 84:56s		UK: Released uncut on pre-cert video for: UK Guild VHS The uncut Guild VHS was released in February 1983. It was banned as a video nasty in March 1984. It was dropped from the list in June 1985
cut cut: run: 88:24s pal: 84:52s		UK: Passed X (18) after BBFC cuts for: 1981 cinema release

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They work by day, take a full schedule of classes all night and somehow find time for study and an occasional date. Women in the evening curriculum at Bostons distinguished Wendell College do a lot to get ahead in life. But theres someone who will go to even greater lengths. Someone who will do anything to get a head.

A killer whose m.o. is the ritualistic decapitation of victims makes terror a required course at Night School, directed by Kenneth Hughes (Casino Royale 1967) and starring Rachel Ward (The Thorn Birds; After Dark, My Sweet) in her screen debut. Leonard Mann plays the homicide lieutenant assigned to the puzzling case. He has hunches, not clues. Suspects, not evidence. And a rising body count. Finals are coming early this year at Wendell. And for those who dont make the grade, heads will roll.