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Escape from the Bronx (1983) More at IMDbPro »Fuga dal Bronx (original title)

• The British version released by Entertainment In Video is missing a few scenes due to censorship, most notably some of the "hostages rigged with bombs" sequence (originally a hostage deliberately ran at a Disinfestor so the bomb goes off in his face) and Strike hitting a Disinfestor in the helmet visor with his shotgun butt causing his face to turn to red mush. The American Media entertainment NTSC video version is HEAVILY edited and missing some segments that completely change the plot of the film. In this version Vice President survives by simply driving out of the Bronx. Toblerone, Blonde Female Rebel and Big Little Man don't die and the scene where Trash takes on 3 disinfestors armed only with a crash helmet is gone.
  
  
• The U.S. version titled "Escape 2000" is cut even more heavily than the Media version. It is missing several of the more violent shots and has many slight cuts to the dialog scenes to omit the swear words.
  
  
• The recent German EMS DVD release reinstates nearly all the scenes missing from the Media entertainment and "Escape 2000" versions and has slightly more gore than the British version (marginally longer flame deaths and the full Hostages Rigged With Bombs scene) but is inexplicably missing two scenes from the British release. Strike hitting the Disinfestor's helmet visor is completely missing, not just trimmed and President Clarke gets shot once not twice.
  
  
• For its original UK cinema release the BBFC cut 11 secs of Strike bloodily bashing a Disinfestor's face with a shotgun butt, and a scene where a booby-trapped hostage blows himself and a guard up. The cuts were restored for the 2004 Vipco DVD though the print was a shorter one, and missed shots of a man falling from a window and being beaten during the opening credits, and Strike telling Junior "Well done" after the latter shoots a guard. The 2009 Shameless DVD (released as part of the 'Bronx Warriors Trilogy' box set) restores these sequences in full, together with the original credits title of "Escape From The Bronx".
  
  

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