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Originally Posted by Dave Boy  Wow. Nice one.
THE SRANGLERS OF BOMBAY 'Integral' version. I'm intrigued ! |
It's as close as we could get to the uncut version. Sadly, the original BBFC files no longer survive, so we don't have the fine detail of their decisions any more (especially the now unanswerable question of how the
hell did it get an A certificate?) but it seems that they requested three comparatively trivial-looking cuts (for instance, a close-up of Captain Connaught-Smith being dragged by a horse after his murder) - but otherwise everything got through intact.
So what we've done is take the UK version (with the five cutaways to Marie Devereux appearing aroused by the violence and the longer alleyway scene) and the US version (with an extra close-up of arm-slitting) and fused them together. We stress on the disc that this isn't historically authentic, and neither can it be accurately described as 'uncut', but it's very unlikely that a longer version is possible to assemble now - the three offcuts are missing believed destroyed decades ago.
(Sadly, it looks as though the censored footage from
The Terror of the Tongs suffered that fate - we tried every avenue we could think of but drew a blank, and every Hammer expert we spoke to wished us luck but said they were convinced that the footage no longer exists. And I'm afraid that's my conclusion too.)