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• The closeups of Sister Ruth applying lipstick and wearing makeup were deleted from the original U.S. prints.
  
  
• The flashbacks of Sister Clodagh's life prior to her becoming a nun were deleted from the original U.S prints of the film.
  
  
• The 'Madness of Sister Ruth' (Kathleen Byron) with a classic scene of all-stops-out, sex-starved insanity was removed from the original US version to avoid offending the Catholic Legion of Decency.
  
  
• This scene was restored when the film was re-released in the US in the 1980's.
  
  

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