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• The BBFC originally demanded 20 secs of cuts to include edits for language but these were successfully appealed by the director. In the end a ten second shot of Paul putting his fingers between Jeanne's buttocks was censored from the sodomy scene for the original British cinema release. The cut was later restored to all UK prints in 1978.
  
  
• Available on video in both R-rated and uncut X-rated versions. One of the main difference between the two cuts involves a scene of anal sex between Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider. In the R-rated version, the scene isn't cut, but rather a lamp is superimposed over the scene, covering most of their bodies. The censored R-rated version is cut by two minutes.
  
  
• A scene in which Paul scares away a bible salesman from his apartment by getting on all fours and barking like a dog was in the film at its world premiere at the New York Film Festival. Although Pauline Kael, present at that screening, specifically praised the scene in her "New Yorker" review of the film, Bertolucci cut it out of the film before its general release.
  
  
• A four-hour rough cut of the film exists. Not much is known what this version contains, but apparently it is the version of the film in which Gato Barbieri, the film's composer viewed four times in August of 1971, in order to decide where music was needed in the film.
  
  

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