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• When Peter Jackson learned during post-production that the MPAA was going to give the movie an R-rating (despite many efforts to go for a PG-13 rating), he made Milton Dammers' death scene more gruesome by blowing up his head, instead of just having him shot in the chest and blown through the chapel doors. This caused a lot of problems with the European censors, who cut the one continuous shot into two shots, minus the bullet blowing up the head. The U.S. television version uses the take where Dammers is blown through the chapel doors.
  
  
• UK theatrical version was cut by the BBFC (two seconds) for a '15' certification: The moment where Agent Milton gets his head blown off is trimmed into two separate shots to cut down the gore-factor (in the US version, his head is blown clear off in one three-second shot). This scene is included in the director's cut which also has a '15' certification.
  
  
• USA television version replaces the scene of Dammers' head being blown off with him instead being blown back into the chapel doors.
  
  
• The director's cut, until recently seen only on laserdisc, now also available on DVD, contains 14 minutes of additional footage; it includes additional screen time for Judge (John Astin), extra scenes at Frank's home with Stuart and Cyrus, two extra scenes at the jail featuring Stuart, Cyrus and Dammers and additional dialogue for Dammers as he recalls some of his horrific undercover assignments.
  
  
• The Theatrical Trailer features some cut scenes. They include a scene in which Frank is visited in Jail by Stuart and Cyrus, they inform Frank that the police are going to try and pin the murders on him. Another scene takes place in Frank's house right after they scam Ray and Lucy, in which Stuart tells Cyrus that Frank takes them totally for granted and that they are his business partners. There is also a snipet of Frank jumping out from behind a giant rock looking terrified.
  
  
• SPOILER: USA Television edits out the scene where Patricia murders her mother.
  
  

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