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• The original UK cinema and video releases were cut by 8 secs (10 secs for video) by the BBFC to shorten the scene of a man suffocating inside a plastic bag to an "establishment only" shot, and to edit the second neck-break of the banker's flatmate. The latter was done to gain the film a '15' certificate, as the rating then prohibited 2 violent murders within the same camera shot. The later Columbia video/DVD release appears to have been edited differently and removes the scene altogether. The cuts were fully waived for the 2008 Sony DVD.
  
  
• Collector's edition DVD includes five deleted scenes:
  
  
• Frank Horrigan plays the piano in the bar. A woman talks to him and tries to wake his interest in her. But he just plays the piano with her. They both agree how beautiful that is and he says "that's about as beautiful as it gets in our days."
  
  
• An extended version of the scene where two ambulance men are called to help Frank. Two of his colleagues tell the others about a joke he practiced on his former superior.
  
  
• A small conversation between Frank and Lilly. He asks if she has missed him and if she wants to go out with him for dinner.
  
  
• In the hotel Frank watches TV and sees himself on the news as he captures the bell boy.
  
  
• An extension of the scene where Frank and Lilly are in the bar. He tells her that he once protected Fidel Castro.
  
  
• Versions on network television edit the scene on the rooftop: we do not see Mitch Leary take Agent Horrigan's gun into his mouth (though he does open his mouth to receive it), and soon thereafter, the shot of Agent D'Andrea getting shot in the face and blood pouring from his mouth is completely cut.
  
  
• The UK VHS and DVD versions remove close-ups of the bag over Al's head during the opening sequence. 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 neckbreaks have been removed completely, despite the BBFC only requesting sound cuts.
  
  

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