Deleted Scene / Live-Action Films

Deleted Scenes in live-action movies.

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Movies/series with their own pages:

• DC Extended Universe
• Dragonheart
• Fantastic Four Duology
• The Lord of the Rings
  • The Hobbit
• Marvel Cinematic Universe
• Scooby-Doo Live-Action Film Series
• Spider-Man
• Star Wars
• X-Men Film Series

Individual examples:

Plot Hole Fixing Deleted Scenes

• In Aliens, as mentioned below, a scene removed from the theatrical version (included in the Director's Cut) shows that the colonists were deliberately sent to the derelict space craft by someone in the corporation (Burke). However, without this scene, it's never explained why the colony has suddenly been attacked after ~twenty years of nothing happening other than perhaps it only being a matter of time. This wouldn't be an issue except for the scene where Ripley reveals to Burke that she found out that he ordered the investigation and is to blame for the colony's deaths. At this point, the audience has not been informed that there even was a scouting mission to search for the derelict ship and that's what triggered these events. Although it's understandable in context from their dialogue that Burke is a Hidden Villain, the particulars don't make a lot of sense without the deleted scene.
• The 2007 Live-Action Adaptation for Alvin and the Chipmunks had a deleted scene where Ian Hawke gets thrown in jail along with the squirrels that he was trying to get to sing. The sequel begins with him being released from jail and resuming his search for Jett Records' next big thing.
• The Back to the Future movies have some notable deleted scenes:
  • In Part I:
    • One deleted scene is an extended version of the scene where Doc is setting up a line to channel the lightning bolt's electric current to the DeLorean. In the final film, an officer comes along and asks Doc if he has a permit. We see Doc rummage in his wallet for the permit as Marty tucks the note warning Doc about his demise at the Libyans' hands in 1985 into his coat pocket. The deleted scene shows that the "permit" is actually a $50 bill, quite a bit of money back in 1955. Marty also worries about the psychological repercussions of his plan.
      Marty: You know, this is the kind of thing that could screw me up permanently. What if I go back to the future and I end up bein'... gay?
      Doc: Why SHOULDN'T you be happy?
    • When Doc and Marty go to the high school for the first time so that Marty can point out his parents to Doc, the actual film cuts from them walking past the bike racks to Marty pointing out George to Doc. In the deleted scene, Marty looks through a classroom window and see Lorraine cheating on a test:
      Marty McFly: Holy shit! She's cheating! [to Doc] She's—she's my mom.
      [Cuts to Lorraine and her friends leaving class a few minutes later]
      Lorraine Baines: I got an F anyway...
    • An extended version of the scene where Marty sneaks into George's bedroom posing as "Darth Vader, an extraterrestrial from the planet Vulcan". Here, we see Marty specifically order George to ask Lorraine out while threatening him a hairdryer (which he calls a brain melting gun), and chloroforming George afterwards before jumping out the window and climbing into Doc's car. The scene was cut because the very next scene had George tell Marty about the encounter, rendering it redundant; however, the chloroform served to explain why George's remark "I overslept!"
    • Remember the suitcase Doc packed before being shot by the Libyans? In 1955, just before Marty shows the video, Doc finds the suitcase and looks through its contents, which includes a Play Boy magazine and the hairdryer used in the extended "Darth Vader" scene.
    • Wonder why George was eating peanut brittle for dinner in 1985? Originally, after talking to Biff, Marty tries to urge George to stand up for himself at a child selling peanut brittle. But instead, he caves, buying all of the brittle, with the child's father saying "See, I told you we'd only have to stop at one house."
    • Why did George take so long to go to the parking lot? Being a nerd, George went into a phone booth to call the operator to confirm the time. But Dixon, the teen who'd kicked George when he had the "Kick Me" sign on his back and cuts in on George and Lorraine during "Earth Angel", traps him inside. George cries for help, only to have Mr. Strickland chastise him for being a slacker.
  • From Part II
    • One deleted scene has Marty encounter Dave in 1985-A outside Biff Tannen's Pleasure Palace Casino. The scene shows that Dave is a drunken and ramshackle hobo. According to the DVD commentary by producers Gale and Neil Canton, the scene was deleted because Wendie Jo Sperber, who played Marty's sister Linda in the first film, was pregnant at the time and thus could not be featured in the sequel; they felt that if Marty's brother was seen, people would wonder what happened to his sister as well. Word of God says she would have been a prostitute in 1985-A. The scene did appear, however, in the novelization.
  • From Part III
    • After Marty and the 1955 Doc excavate the buried DeLorean, they touch one of the tires, which immediately turns to dust, which explains why Doc was looking at a decayed tire while putting the DeLorean on the tow-truck.
    • In one deleted scene, readable in the novelization, Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen and his gang ride toward town for Buford's showdown with Marty. They are stopped by Marshal Strickland and his son, who have shotguns trained at Buford and are intending to stop him. Buford shoots the marshal's shotgun out of his hands, then orders his son to put his gun down as well, before giving the Marshal a stern order to ride out of town for a few hours and leave him alone while he deals with Marty. Marshal Strickland and his son start to trot off, with Buford training his revolver on the Marshal's back. Suddenly, Buford shoots the Marshal in the back. As the Marshal collapses, Buford shouts, "I lied, Marshal!" then he and his gang ride off. With his dying breath, the marshal tells his son, "Remember that word, son: discipline," to which the son replies "I will, pa." This scene was cut because it was too dark for the content of the rest of the franchise. Had it been retained in the movie, this would be the crime for which the deputy is arresting Buford after his duel with Marty. It also explains why Strickland's deputy is arresting Buford, and not Strickland himself. Also, after what he did, it didn't seem right that Buford did not die. The producers were worried the audience would want Marty to kill Buford, but he couldn't because Buford needed to live long enough to extend the Tannen family line.
• The deluxe DVD edition of Boogie Nights has a deleted sequence where Becky calls Dirk after being beaten by her husband and Dirk ramming his 'Vette into a telephone pole on the way to help her (which finally explained why in later scenes the car was wrecked).
• Bubble removes scenes where Martha is told that she has a tumor in her brain that can cause blackouts and strange behavior. This explains why she murdered Rose, why she has headaches, and why she's occasionally engulfed in bright light.
• A deleted scene from The Craft has Sarah, Bonnie and Rochelle showing concern for Nancy as the power of Mannon goes to her head. She loses it and chews them all out, telling Bonnie and Rochelle that they're losers without her and warning Sarah not to screw with her. Bonnie and Rochelle's decision to side with Nancy over Sarah later in the film would make more sense if this scene were kept in the film (either out of guilt or because they're afraid of Nancy). Without it, they just turn on Sarah for no real reason.
• From Diamonds Are Forever the unfortunate fate of Plenty O'Toole is explained by a deleted scene where Plenty returned to Bond's apartment after she had been thrown out the window wearing nothing by her flimsy see through panties and purple high heels. When she returns the soaking wet Plenty is wearing nothing but a white towel to cover her basically naked body and enters quietly in the hopes of retrieving her clothes and to see what has become of Bond. She becomes quietly angry when she sees him screwing Tiffany Case and almost leaves in a fit... until she sees Tiffany's purse, goes through it and finds Tiffany's address.
• In Die Hard 2, after Colonel Stuart takes control of Dulles International Airport's tower controls, Lorenzo has his SWAT team escort airport engineer Leslie Barnes to the under-construction Annex Skywalk to repair the satellite dish and reestablish communication with the planes. Just before they reach the antenna dish, the SWAT escorts are ambushed and killed by a team of Stuart's henchmen who are disguised as painters and mechanics (Barnes manages to take cover, though he gets a nasty cut on his arm from shards of flying glass). A deleted scene called "Down the Rabbit Hole" - which would have fallen in between the scene where Baker and Thompson kill the church custodian, and the scene where Miller, Cochrane and Garber are rendezvousing in a bar at the terminal - shows two of the Skywalk henchmen - O'Reilly and Sheldon - approach two painters unloading paint cans from their van. O'Reilly shoots both of them, then they load their bodies into the back of the vehicle and lock the doors.
• Harry Potter:
  • A shot in the Half-Blood Prince trailer shows Ginny being disarmed by Fenir Greyback, explaining why she didn't raise her wand to defend herself in that scene. If you're wondering why she has her wand later in that scene, you can briefly see her reaching for the ground in the final cut, obviously to retrieve her wand, but the movie cuts away from her at that moment.
  • A deleted scene in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 shows Ron explaining that saying Voldemort's name is now taboo and will bring Death Eaters. Viewers are left wondering in the completed film why they immediately appear at Xenophilius Lovegood's house after he says it.
  • A deleted scene from Deathly Hallows, Part 2 explains why Luna is at Hogwarts when the Trio gets there, despite them having apparently left her at Shell Cottage earlier in the film.
• The extended version of Independence Day features a scene explaining how they managed to upload a virus onto the alien mothership by using a laptop. Apparently, the Earth technology is compatible with the ones Aliens have due to it being reverse-engineered from the Roswell UFO (same as with Megatron from live-action Transformers).
• The movie In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale had the editors cut out a scene after a duel between the real king's brother (who wanted to be king and shot his brother with an arrow in the middle of a battle) and the commander of the army. After the main character comes in and is proclaimed king, the commander grabs the brother and slits his throat. This leaves viewers questioning "What happened?" as in the theatrical cut the guy never appears again, seemingly vanishing into thin air.
• Volume 2 of Kill Bill has a deleted scene which has Bill and the Bride visiting China (most likely to introduce her to Pai Mei), and which has Bill facing off against the former student of a guy who Bill killed and his handful of mooks, in a scene straight out of one of the old Shaw Brothers Chop Socky movies.
• In Legend (1985) there was an extended opening sequence involving the goblins trying and failing to capture the unicorns. When they report back to Big D, Blunder interrupts to brag about his role in the attempt and is punished for speaking out of turn by having his left hand turned into a chicken foot by Darkness, explaining why he has that for the rest of the movie. Without this scene, his chicken-foot hand goes unaddressed.
• A deleted scene from the DVD of Little Nicky shows Nicky explaining on who created the flask and why does Nicky have it rather than just trap his brothers.
• One of the deleted scenes featured on the Looney Tunes: Back in Action DVD shows why the Acme VPs had to press their buzzers whenever they spoke up. One of the VPs makes the mistake of not doing so and is punished by being wrapped up in plastic.
  Bugs Bunny: Folks, keep your executives fresh as the day they were fired with new Execuwrap! Ehehehehehe!
  Daffy Duck: I love this scene. They couldn't have cut one of your scenes to keep this in?
• Monkeybone has tons of Deleted Scenes thanks to Executive Meddling. No major plot points, but a lot of little things are suddenly explained after seeing them.
• A deleted scene in Reservoir Dogs would have explained why the police never come to the aid of either Mr. Orange or Marvin Nash. The scene shows Orange's undercover supervisor Holdaway explaining that they couldn't put a hidden camera in the warehouse without arousing suspicion; while the police would have the exterior under distant surveillance, they were under strict orders not to appear until Joe Cabot emerged from the warehouse carrying the diamonds so he would be caught red-handed.
• Santa Claus: The Movie's Novelization has many scenes that didn't make the finished film and haven't surfaced as DVD extras, but most likely were shot; some fill in major and minor plot points:
  • A brief shot in the film of a boy sitting outside a Romany Gypsy caravan writing a letter to Santa in the first "Santa through the years" montage? Turns out he's from a musical family but cannot play an instrument or sing, and wants something that will allow him to perform music as well. Santa assigns this challenge to Patch, who invents a hurdy-gurdy for the boy.
  • Another scene had Patch inventing a hula hoop — about 100 years in advance of the fad — and being told It Will Never Catch On.
  • The interlude about Santa's Weight Woe after he's described as fat in "A Visit from St. Nicholas" continued into a Christmas go-round where he desperately tries to resist eating the cookies that have been left out for him. He decides that he can't disappoint the kids who care about him, enjoys the cookies, and tells his reindeer as they depart that people expect Santa Claus to be Big Fun, having decided he's happy with himself the way he is.
  • After the Christmas Eve of the puce pop delivery, Santa Claus decides to delay his return to the North Pole and instead revisits New York City as the morning dawns. He discovers that the presents he brought are already being tossed into the trash unopened, as kids are too crazy for the lollipops. He even talks to some kids about this and then asks them what they gave others for Christmas — and they're flummoxed and mocking of the very idea. This is what spurs his gloomy monologue to Anya in the finished film, and the sequence also appears in the Marvel Comics adaptation.
  • There was a lot more to the ending — namely, all of the finished film's Left Hanging issues were resolved. First, Patch apologizes for screwing things up so badly and mends fences with his rival Puffy, with the implication that Puffy's Good Old Ways approach will ensure that Patch's ideas work as intended (which also fixes a Broken Aesop). Santa and Mrs. Claus decide to adopt Joe and Cornelia. And finally, after the celebration Santa starts getting letters from children apologizing to him for not appreciating his presents in favor of the puce pops, and already putting in requests for next Christmas, proving that they no longer hold the one Christmas of defective gifts against him.
• Snake Eyes: The original plan for the climactic chase scene involved Nic Cage having to go through a flooded tunnel, an event he later claims to have a recurring nightmare about in the epilogue, and actually filmed but replaced in the actual movie with a much less-exciting tunnel-free chase.
• Star Trek (2009) has a slightly skewed chronology because of a deleted scene. It does show that in the time between when they landed in the past and when they destroyed Vulcan, Nero and his guys did not spend years dicking around. He and his crew were captured and held prisoners by the Klingons on Rura Penthe (the Klingon prison colony from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country) during that time. Similarly, there's a deleted scene just before the one where young Kirk steals the car: the teenager he passes on the road is his older brother George, and he steals the car and takes it on a joyride because its owner had just kicked George out of the house.
• Sucker Punch has a scene which was deleted because it explained what the movie was about in detail, and drove the point home. Zack Snyder was forced to delete it over Moral Guardian issues. Regardless it explains a plot hole and a facial expression.
  • More specifically, after being mentioned quite often, we finally see The High Roller, who purchases Baby Doll after she is caught escaping. They have a very intimate conversation. He notes that while he has purchased the right to take her virginity, he wants her to give it to him freely, "Not because you have to, but because you want to." In return for her gift, he will grant her freedom from want, fear, guilt, pain and everything else. Just as Babydoll consents to him, in the real world the Doctor (who is the High Roller in Baby's brothel reality) delivers the hammer blow that lobotomizes her — freeing her from her life of guilt and pain. The happy expression the Doctor comments on comes from Baby Doll being set free
• Superman IV: The Quest for Peace lost a whole plot hole-fixing subplot in scene deletions. The finished film's Nuclear Man is actually Lex Luthor's second attempt at a Superman knockoff. The first is more akin to Bizarro, and during his encounter with Superman he sees and falls for Lacy Warfield. After his defeat, this Nuclear Man's remains are incorporated into the creation of the second Nuclear Man — which turns out to have retained the memories of the first one, explaining why he decides to kidnap Lacy after seeing her face on the front cover of the Daily Planet.
• The Super Mario Bros. (1993) movie had a lost scene storyboarded as part of the sequence introducing the de-evolution chamber. Koopa catches one of his technicians sneezing and has the poor guy turned into primordial ooze as he demands Mario and Luigi tell him where the rock is. This scene explains why, when Mario and Luigi push Koopa into the devo-chair immediately following, there's some slimy substance on the ground at that point; it's the remains of the unfortunate technician.
• Titanic (1997):
  • The last time you see Lovejoy, he is limping and his face is bleeding. This isn't due to injuries caused in the ongoing disaster; a deleted scene has Cal send Lovejoy after Rose and Jack after he realizes the Heart of the Ocean is with Rose, and Jack beats Lovejoy in a fight.
  • A smaller version from the same film. When Rose is preparing to jump from the Titanic, she's no longer wearing the necklace she had on at dinner—she's quite disheveled in fact. A deleted scene shows that she went to her room and tore off the necklace in a fit of hysteria.
  • In the original cut, the blonde girl that stares at Rose as she hangs from the railing on the back of the sinking ship, was Fabrizzio's love interest and a friend of Rose and Jack, but most scenes involving her were cut. The two women's silent last interaction has a different meaning if you know this.
  • The original ending has Lovett surprising old Rose before she throws the Heart of the Ocean into the sea. She explains that the reason she contacted them in the first place was because she wanted to throw the Heart on the place the Titanic sank.
• Wing Commander had a traitor subplot cut from the final release due to poor audience reception at a test screening, but several scenes in the final cut of the movie rely on the subplot to make sense. The Novelization of the film includes the subplot, and as a result the story flows more smoothly.

TV Screening Additions

• Blazing Saddles had deleted scenes that turned up in commercial TV prints in part to replace the most vulgar ones from the theatrical cut. These include more "Sheriff Bart fooling Mongo" stuff and a scene where Gov. LePetomane goes into the fake Rock Ridge and shakes hands with its cardboard "residents".
• Child's Play 2: Aside from scenes that further develop the foster parents, the likes of USA and Syfy opt for its infamous extended ending, where a fragment of Chucky's blown-apart face (with eye) melts into a plastic vat and the doll machine reveals a head that contorts into a sinister smile, similar to the manner of how he comes back for the next movie. The shot of the machine opening was even once used in a promo by the former network.
• The ABC Family/Freeform cut How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) includes a couple scenes that were cut from the original film:
  • Cindy Lou's father coming to pick her up from school after she'd been in detention for announcing that she was doing her Wholiday Report on the Grinch.
  • A small scene that shows a few of the main characters getting ready for bed on Christmas Eve, except for Lou, who's trying, and failing, to build a swing set.
• The broadcast version of Ernest Goes to Jail features several scenes not in the VHS or DVD releases, including a final scene before the credits where Ernest finally becomes a bank clerk...only to be magnetized again by an electric shock from his keyboard and chased from his desk by a filing cabinet.
  • An earlier additional scene had Ernest (who they believe to be Nash) brought into a room the night before his execution to be entertained by a lady of the night. Naive Ernest, not knowing what's in store for him, is heard off-camera screaming. The scene ends with him being physically dragged out of the room by two guards, completely exhausted.
• The Godfather I and II were released in 1977 as a television miniseries called The Godfather Saga, supposedly because Francis Ford Coppola needed to raise more money for the production of Apocalypse Now. Saga incorporated more than an hour's worth of minor character scenes and setup moments, including more footage of young Vito in II and the original ending of I (where Kay prays to an altar during the credits). It was later reaired on AMC in 2012 to commemorate the first film's 40th anniversary.
• The Disney Channel used to air a version of The Goonies with a deleted scene in which the gang gets attacked by a giant octopus — the incident actually mentioned by Data at the end of the theatrical cut.
• Some TV versions of Gremlins include a scene where Billy and Kate encounter Billy's coworker Gerald hiding from the gremlins in a bank vault and revealing that they killed the manager.
• The original (1978) version of Halloween (1978) got some additional scenes for its network airing. John Carpenter shot these during the production of Halloween II (1981) in 1981.
• In the TV version of Happy Gilmore, there is a scene where Happy meets the cruel orderly, and, after finding out what he's been doing to the residents (his grandma in particular) beats him up and tosses him out a window where he gets attacked by the other residents of the nursing home. This is more satisfying, as in the released version, he gets away with all he does.
• The Disney Channel and ABC Family cuts of the Harry Potter films often restore the deleted scenes that have been released.
• ABC's airings of Jingle All the Way in the '90s and early '00s included several deleted scenes, notably a long monologue by Myron describing his favorite childhood action figure.
• The initial television broadcast of The Lost World: Jurassic Park had several deleted scenes restored. The two major scenes in this cut (a board meeting between InGen executives and a longer introduction to Roland Tembo) are included as deleted scenes on the recent DVD release.
• The Muppet Christmas Carol has a Cut Song called "When Love Is Gone". It was deleted from the theatrical release but included on TV reruns and the VHS release - but left off the DVD. When the Ghost of Christmas Past takes Scrooge to the memory of Belle leaving him, the song begins after she says "You did once"^note Claiming Scrooge does not love her any more. It explains why Rizzo is crying so much as Belle leaves. It also gets a Triumphant Reprise at the end called "When Love Is Found". The song was eventually re-integrated into the streaming version on Disney+ in time for Christmas 2022.
• Murder by Death had four scenes added for its network airing. Watch 'em here.
• Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid was heavily cut in its original theatrical release. TV airings of the movie through the '70s and '80s (prior to the release of the Preview Cut) trimmed more explicit scenes of sex and violence, but often included incidental scenes (for instance, Dub Taylor and Elisha Cook Jr.'s cameos as aged prospectors) deleted from the original version to compensate.
• The President's Analyst premiered on broadcast TV with two scenes that have since vanished: one where Dr. Schaefer (James Coburn) first meets love interest Nan (Joan Delaney) in a NYC art-movie theater - now she's first seen in bed with him. Later, as he checks to see whether or not he's paranoid thinking he's being watched by spies, he gets them to expose themselves, and finds Nan is a spy too - a missing scene has him hallucinating disembodied floating eyeballs, including two looming out from her face.
• In TV broadcasts of Road Trip, Josh's Catapult Nightmare is extended with some additonal footage that didn't make it into the final cut.
• The FX Network version of Spider-Man 2 has a couple of minor character scenes that aren't present in the final cut of the film, including a longer conversation between Peter and Mary-Jane outside his house where she admits that she's seeing J. Jonah Jameson's son and he laughs it off, that weren't present in the theatrical cut. Despite the "Spider-Man 2.1" cut being released with additional footage, the scenes in the FX version are nowhere to be found and haven't been officially released to date.
• The initial television broadcast of the Star Trek: The Motion Picture movie included several deleted scenes that were character-oriented and cut from the theatrical release for timing (along with one which showed a spacesuited Kirk floating out of of a half-Enterprise, half-soundstage Special Effects Failure in pursuit of Spock). These scenes were eventually restored in the definitive Director's Cut DVD which also featured a number of new special effects sequences.
• The various Superman Film Series films have had additional scenes added. To wit: the theatrical version of the 1978 Superman: The Movie runs just over two hours, the extended edition runs almost half-an-hour longer, while the TV version runs almost three hours (with extra scenes like the resolution of the Kryptonian Executioner subplot, Luthor playing the piano multiple times and Lois being revealed as the young girl who saw Clark run past her to catch the train as a young boy).
• Top Secret! has a few deleted scenes which sometimes appear in television broadcasts.
• Trading Places tends to air on TV with an additional scene showing Clarence Beeks stealing the crop report for the Dukes by drugging a security guard.
• Westworld had a scene added for TV where a guest in Medieval World is tortured on the rack after the robots go haywire.
• The broadcast premiere of Who Framed Roger Rabbit included a scene cut from the theatrical release (but not before a bit of it appeared in the trailer). In it, Eddie Valiant is caught snooping in Jessica's dressing room, causing Judge Doom to order the Weasels to take Eddie into Toontown and paint a toon pig's head on him. On his emerging from Toon Town, Eddie goes to his office to wash it off — which explains why he's just out of the bathroom when Jessica goes to talk to him.

General

• Aliens has examples of TV cut additions and a plothole-filled sequence:
  • When the film first aired on television (on CBS) in 1991, it included an extended sequence where the Marines use sentry guns to kill most of the xenomorphs while holed up in the Operations wing. The sequence was later used in the Director's Cut version, along with a sequence which shows Hadley's Hope before the attack.
  • More importantly, a scene where Ripley finds an impregnated Burke in the alien hive wasn't released for many years until its inclusion on the Alien Anthology Blu-Ray set, largely due to Cameron's insistence that the scene was ridiculous and caused a plot hole.
• Almost Famous would have included a scene where William Miller and his parents listen to Led Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven. All ten-plus minutes of it^note It's actually eight minutes long. It was removed because of rights clearance issues with the band.
• Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy is a very interesting example. There were so many deleted scenes and alternate takes left on the cutting room floor, including an alternate subplot involving a comically inept extremist organization called The Alarm Clock, that they were cobbled together into a straight-to-DVD faux-sequel called Wake Up, Ron Burgundy.
• Apocalypse Now. The theatrical version runs for 2 hours and 20 minutes and the Redux version just over 3 hours. A never-released workprint of the film (featuring tons and tons of alternate and deleted shots, musical cues and much more) runs an astounding five-and-a-half hours. It comprises almost all the footage Francis Ford Coppola had shot in production, and can still be found circulating around the Internet (in very rough form).
• The Aristocrats. Considering the nature of the film, some of the comedians filmed telling the titular joke are either edited out or included in shorter takes. One sadly cut for length is Kevin Pollak's telling of the joke in a restaurant using a spot-on Albert Brooks impression.
• Avatar's extended special edition not only includes more scenes that the theatrically-released special edition, but also includes an extended opening sequence that shows in greater detail just how much of a Crapsack World Earth has become. In the theatrical and original SE cuts, the Earth sequence basically consisted of little more than snippets from a scene that takes place in a morgue (which, with its rows of incinerators, bears greater resemblance to an industrial complex) where Jake, accompanied by a pair of representatives for Parker Selfridge's mining company, pays his last respects to his twin brother Tom.
• The Avengers had several scenes:
  • One set of scenes expanded Cobie Smulders' character Maria Hill, and used her character as a Framing Device (via questioning after the battle in New York) to tell the events in question. It was shown she had been placed in SHIELD by the World Security Council to watch and report on Nick Fury. Part of the movie's climax was her decision to transfer her loyalty to Fury.
  • There's an additional deleted scene showing Steve Rogers adjusting to the modern world, which includes running into the waitress who he ends up saving at the bank during the Battle of New York, plus a Stan Lee cameo wherein he implores Steve to ask the waitress out. This would've explained how the waitress recognized Cap when seeing him unmasked.
  • During the final battle, there is also a long sequence showing how the aforementioned waitress got from the diner to the bank where she was being held as a hostage. She is assisted by a police officer who aids her in getting through the ravaged streets, but is shot by the Chitauri while helping her escape. This was likely cut for being filler.
• Avengers: Endgame was reportedly cut severely down from its original length, with various scenes either being mentioned in pre-production interviews or added in later releases.
  • The June 2019 re-release of the film adds a deleted scene after the credits — the original introduction of "Professor" Hulk, who would be seen saving a group of residents from a burning building before Steve calls him. The scene also has incomplete CGI, and was cut for reasons of pacing.
  • The third act originally featured a long sequence (described as "a film within a film") where various characters reunited during the final battle amid the ruins of the Avengers Headquarters and formed a plan to attack Thanos' army. This was cut on the basis that it would have padded out an already-long movie.
  • Prior to release, Katherine Langford was cut in an unspecified role, and was present during reshoots. It was later revealed that she was cast as an adult version of Tony's daughter, Morgan, who would appear to him just before his death, when he has a vision via the Soul Stone. The scene was cut on the basis that it would have been too confusing for audiences, who wouldn't know who the woman talking to Tony was.
• Carry On... Series:
  • Carry On Henry:
    • Patsy Rowlands confirms on the Carry On Girls DVD Commentary that the Queen's execution scene was much longer and she had given a long, dramatic speech, only for Gerald Thomas to cut the scene short for being too dramatic.
    • Some of the marriage scene between King Henry and Queen Marie was cut to keep Joan Sims' reveal as the Queen until later.
    • A line where Lord Hampton tells Fawkes his gunpowder will never work and he should leave it to his heirs was cut, making it seem as if Fawkes was actually Guy Fawkes alive before he should have been.
      Lord Hampton: Oh for heaven's sake, Fawkes! Forget about your damned barrels of gunpowder!
      Fawkes: Well, I feel I ought to do something with them...
      Lord Hampton: Leave them to your heirs! Let them find something to do with them!
    • King Henry and Cardinal Wolsey looking at portraits of potential new wives:
      Cardinal Wolsey: Now this one should suit your Majesty quite well. Anna-Marie. She'd make an excellent Queen, I feel.
      King Henry: Umm, I don't know. Bit on the big side. What make?
      Cardinal Wolsey: The Schleswig-Holstein's.
      King Henry: No, no, I don't like German stuff. All right for a while but they don't build 'em to last.
    • Cardinal Wolsey being tempted to pinch a maid's bottom before the arrival of Conte di Pisa.
    • The scene where Cromwell explains the Sex Enjoyment Tax to King Henry was cut down, as Cromwell's mouth can still be seen moving when the scene fades out.
    • The scene where King Henry explains his family motto lost its ending, which featured an appearance from his second wife.
    • Lord Hampton advocating against the Sex Enjoyment Tax at Speaker's Corner while being heckled:
      Lord Hampton: Knowing that with S.E.T. you've got to pay up for every little kiss and cuddle? No! Let's have it off, I say!
      Young Man: I intend to!
    • Sir Roger briefly joining Queen Marie in the Tower.
    • King Henry and Bettina playing strip croquet in the gardens.
    • Cromwell and a warder moving Sir Roger from the rack to the Iron Maiden after he gets too stretched for it:
      Cromwell: What do you mean "He won't fit it any further"?
      Warder: The rack won't go any further! He's outgrown it!
      Cromwell: But that's ridiculous! There must be some way...
      Sir Roger: Make a bigger one.
      Cromwell: Would you please mind your own business?!
      Sir Roger: I should have thought it was my business. I've got to go on it.
    • Queen Marie's baby's true father being revealed to be Cardinal Wolsey.
  • Carry On Abroad:
    • A shot of the Elsbels package holiday advertisement, boasting the £17 inclusive price.
    • There were more scenes of Mr. Farquhar and Miss Plunkett at the Wundatours office, which the removal of saw most of Patsy Rowlands' performance lost, as well as all of Bill Maynard and Terry Scott's.
    • The scene of the holidaymakers boarding the coach lost a line from Stanley to Vic:
      Stanley: You wouldn't happen to have a spare bottle of bromide, would you? You see, the jogging of the coach excites my wife.
    • One scene was filmed at Gatwick Airport, London but it was removed from the final film.
    • The first night's dinner sequence saw a segment (poorly) removed, as evidenced by how Pepe disappears from the shot and Mr. Farquhar appears out of nowhere.
    • The BBFC made several cuts to scenes to remove things they didn't approve of; These edits including the scene of Rob accusing Nicholas of being with Lily losing several lines; the removal of Stanley's line, "I'm going to tear off all your clothes, throw you on the bed...", when he finally gets to have it off with Evelyn; and Vic and Cora's exchange of "He's pissed again", and "He can't be, he's just had a leak" in reference to Pepe warning about the flooding being taken out.
  • Carry On Dick:
    • Part of the scene where Dick says his goodbyes to the leaving churchgoers was cut, as evidenced by a jarring cut between Madame Desiree walking off-screen and Captain Fancey walking onscreen.
    • The church jumble sale scene was heavily cut down, resulting in the loss of most of Michael Nightingale, Patsy Rowlands, and George Moon's performances:
      Mrs. Giles: Me? I don't dare get into bed. He'd have me with child afore I could snuff the candle!
  • Carry On Behind:
    • Professor Crump's lecture in the first scene was cut down as evidenced by stills on the DVD and some choppy edits.
    • Major Leep and Barnes crossing paths while looking for Daphne's mynah bird and Ollie respectively.
    • Major Leep starting a fight with the plasterer over some supposedly crooked plaster slabs.
    • Larry Dann recalled on the DVD Commentary that there were more digging scenes filmed that ended up being cut.
    • In a 2023 interview, Jenny Cox revealed that the stripper, Veronica, was supposed to have more of a romantic storyline with Kenneth Connor that was cut, including a scene near the end of the film where Veronica and Major Leep go on a date in his caravan. While the aforementioned scene was filmed, several others weren't due to schedule issues caused by an unnamed actress (but presumed to be Adrienne Posta) showing up late and taking extra time in wardrobe.
  • Carry On England:
    • A scene where Major Carstairs, The Brigadier, and Captain Melly gather in a conference room was cut.
    • Patricia Franklin recalled that the canteen girls had more scenes that were cut, rather than just the one line her Corporal Cook role has in the film.
      Sergeant Able: Well, what is it then?
      Corporal Cook: What d'you think?
      Sergeant Able: I'm asking the question.
      Corporal Cook: Well, it's, er, it's... Here, Freda, what is it?
      Freda: Well, obvious, it's, er, well, it's like- (Beat) Here, Lill, what's on today, then?
      Lill: Liver, what's it look like?
      Sergeant Able: I'd hate to tell you.
    • A scene that involved Sergeant Able hurting his foot.
    • Several segments were taken out for being too near the knuckle, but were later restored for the special edition DVD, these being Sergeant Able's line about knowing a Fokker when he sees one and several shots of the topless parade sequence.
  • Carry On Columbus:
    • A scene of Columbus and Mordecai having a lengthy on-ship discussion was cut short.
    • The first sequence of Columbus meeting Marco the Cereal Killer was cut in half and lost Jack Douglas twitching out the door and into the water.
• In A Christmas Story, at least three of Ralphie's Mister Imagination fantasy sequences were deleted to comply with MGM's 90 minute time limit for the movie. Screenplay fragments of these scenes are available here.
• A fairly large amount of them were cut or only included in the trailers for Cinderella (2015).
  • The prologue with kid Ella was longer, with a scene of she and her mother saving a bird and her mother giving her a longer dying speech.
  • Lady Tremaine's party towards the beginning was longer, with one guest making a sexist remark.
  • A brief conversation between Tremaine and Ella ("What have you been doing?" "Dreaming." "Then wake up!") was only in the trailers.
  • The dialogue during the fencing scene and ball announcement was shortened.
  • The Fairy Godmother explaining the slippers would be a memento and thus not disappear.
  • Ella and Kit having a longer conversation at the ball about their childhoods.
  • The Duke and Royal Guard question Ella after the spell is broken.
  • Ella tries contacting Kit with a letter after the ball, but the Duke finds it first.
  • Kit telling the Captain about his plan to disguise himself as a guard during the search for Ella.
  • A scene after the wedding (where the theatrical film ends).
• The Crow:
  • The 1994 live-action adaptation of '[['The Crow (1994) The Crow]]'' featured an infamous deleted character: The Skull Cowboy, a spiritual mentor who would guide Eric Draven through his quest for vengeance. He only exists on a deleted scene in a workprint version giving Eric a clue before disappearing for good. The character's scenes were cut because they mirrored the circumstances of actor Brandon Lee's death too closely (the Skull Cowboy injures Draven during a fight scene). Plus, there's plenty of other deleted footage that has never officially been released, including an alternate guitar solo sequence (shot from behind) of Draven performing Hellfire (his guitar teacher was a stand-in for this scene).
  • The Crow: City of Angels also featured several deleted scenes that were only released...as a bonus feature on the official CD-Rom companion disc.
• Divergent has several:
  • During the first Training Montage, Peter brags about his shooting accuracy only to get put in his place by Four. The latter also ignores Tris when she asks for shooting advice. This adds a little more meaning to Tris's second Training Montage where Four does offer her advice - and it also explains why she is slightly cold to him when he does.
  • The sequence involving Edward getting stabbed in the eye. Tris goes to Four afterwards and he pretends to not care, but changes his tune as soon as he knows Eric isn't listening. This emphasises that the Dauntless rules are changing.
  • Tris tries to comfort Al privately about his fear of being cut. He bluntly tells her "I just hate anyone who's better than me."
  • The visiting day sequence where Natalie comes to see Tris, telling her to eat some chocolate cake for her. This segues to Max explaining how the fear training will work.
• In E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, there was a scene where, after Elliot's frog-freeing antics, Elliot's mother meets with the school principal played by Harrison Ford. Steven Spielberg had it removed, feeling Ford's presence was too distracting.
• The original Final Destination included deleted scenes with the original ending. The scenes have the hero sleep with his love interest, then get killed saving her. The baby she ends up giving birth to is how she considers he "cheated death", creating new life even though he died.
• The Fly (1986):
  • After Ronnie tells Stathis she is pregnant, there was an entire reel of the film that ended up deleted, with an additional stage in Seth Brundle's transformation to boot. We see Seth working on his computer, looking much worse and also rather psychotic, as he calibrates the telepods to, as we come to find out, fuse together a cat and the surviving baboon. As he leans in to see what happened, a grotesque mutant with two heads and several limbs (half-cat, half-baboon) jumps out, scratches him on his (much bigger) bulge, and cowers behind a box, after which Seth kills it with a pipe. Right after, he climbs up to the roof and screams "No" repeatedly, until the bulge starts hurting him and a perfect insect limb comes out. Horrified, Seth works through the pain and bites it off, throwing it aside. As he looks on in a great deal of pain, it's still twitching...This reel was cut after the first test screening in Toronto because the audience lost all sympathy for Seth after he killed the mutant animal — that one audience member vomited didn't help — seeing it as working out his frustrations on the beast rather than, as intended, giving it a Mercy Kill.
  • Following that was a scripted scene that was never filmed where Seth attacks and kills a bag-lady. It got as far as the casting stage for the extra needed, but again, the need to keep Seth sympathetic led to the sequence being cut.
  • There were also no less than four different epilogues shot to answer the question of what becomes of Veronica's unborn child by Seth, all involving a dream sequence in which a baby with butterfly wings emerges from a chrysalis. The four versions are: Veronica and Stathis are a couple and she is now pregnant with HIS child, Veronica and Stathis are a couple but she isn't pregnant at all, Veronica is alone and not pregnant, Veronica is alone but visibly pregnant with Seth's child. Test audiences didn't care about any of this after Seth's death, however, so David Cronenberg and company decided to end the movie immediately after that scene.
• Fury (2014):
  • Much of the character development that would have been given to the tank crew was left on the cutting room floor. Gordo's increasing alcoholism and PTSD, Grady being so mentally broken by the war that he can barely force himself to continue going, War Daddy's backstory of how he accidentally got his wife and younger brother killed and was allowed to leave prison to fight in the war, which he went into as a Death Seeker only to survive for years on the front lines were all left out of the final product. Likewise more information about Norman was also left out.
  • Captain Waggoner would have died in a deleted scene, struck in the neck by some shrapnel when the Germans begin shelling the town the Americans have taken. Since this scene was cut and no mention is ever made to his death in any other scenes, this probably counts as him being Spared by the Cut.
  • A few other miscellaneous scenes were cut, perhaps most notably one where the tanks drive past a field full of concentration camp victims, much to Norman's bewilderment and horror.
• The official full trailer for the George of the Jungle movie includes a scene where the Tooky Tooky bird sits first class in a plane on his way to warn George about Ape's capture. Needless to say, this scene is not in the film — all we get is a brief Art Shift that covers his flight (using his natural wings) from Africa to San Francisco.
• The Golden Compass's original final 20 minutes, which culminated in a downbeat Cliffhanger, were cut when the studio decided it would be better to have it serve as the opening scenes of The Subtle Knife, which was ultimately never produced. This happened so late in production that all of the promotional stuff, including the trailer, includes it. Because the video game tie-in is closer to the film than the book, a lot of the lost footage (from when Lyra is reunited with Lord Asriel to when Lyra and Iorek split up) can be seen in the game.
• The Great Gatsby (2013) has three deleted scenes of Nick and Jordan's relationship. There is also an alternate ending which is the same as the book where Gatsby's father attended his son's funeral and where Tom meets Nick in New York, a few months later.
• In Happy Gilmore, the orderly in the nursing home was a complete jerk who used everyone in it, including Happy's grandmother, for slave labor. A deleted scene shows that grandma mentioned what the orderly had been doing. He tries to talk his way out of it by claiming she is senile, and Happy pretends to go along with it, transitioning into the orderly being thrown out of a second story window similar to the fate of the IRS agent earlier in the movie. Naturally, all of the residents of the nursing home are very happy to see the orderly get what he's deserved.
  • There were also a couple of scenes that gave auto(The homeless man Happy hires as his caddy) more to do, including going through a minor arc involving becoming a better caddy. Likely cut in favor of just showing his change over time.
• Interestingly, the DVD of the third Harry Potter movie includes a deleted scene in which Sirius Black's attack on Gryffindor Tower is discussed. This attack occurred in the book, but was not in the film or in another deleted scene. Presumably, the entire sequence was removed before they would have filmed the actual attack, leaving us with a weird "orphaned" scene which would only make sense if paired with material that was never filmed. The same film also has an extra scene with the Knight Bus in which the blue screen wasn't edited out before it got removed and it's included as-is on the DVD. You can see both scenes, among others not in the film, here. There are also three others.
  • There are dozens of unreleased scenes from the eight movies whose existence have not gone unnoticed by fans, to the point where petitions have been made to release them. Some of these are quite glaring, such as an alternate ending to the fourth film in which the trio looks out over the maze, a scene from the fifth film of the brain room from the book, and the moment from the first book where Harry asks Dumbledore what he sees in the mirror of Erised.
• Help!:
  • Footage for a few deleted scenes has been floating around. One of the most prominent ones is for a scene in which The Beatles attend The Sam Ahab School of Transcendental Elocution. While there, they, Sam Ahab, and another student known as "Lady Macbeth" are hypnotized by the cult's "Go to the Window" music, except for George, who was wearing earplugs. They try to chop off Ringo's hand while most of the room is in a trance, but George knocks the axe (!!!) they were using out of their hands and into a mirror. The cult flees and everyone wakes up to see the axe left behind. The scene ends with John removing the axe and asking Lady Macbeth "Is this a chopper that you see before you?". This scene would have explained why Ringo withdrew his hand so quickly the next time they tried to cut it off, as well as how the boys knew to plug their ears in the Scotland Yard scene.
  • One scene cut from the movie had George Harrison, disguised as Ringo Starr, sitting in a treehouse.
  • A scene cut from the film was to have been within the attempts to kill Ringo, (within the five attempts), it involved Ringo making a phone call in a phone box, and a blotched sacrifice attempt made within the phone box.
• The "Humuhumunukunukuapua'a" number was deleted from the theatrical version of High School Musical 2, to avoid spilling the beans about Ryan's sexuality, but retained in the DVD release and stage adaptation.
• The trailer for Jurassic Park includes a very quick scene where Ellie reaches out during the initial Jeep ride from the helicopter to the visitor's center and plucks a leaf from a tree. This scene is not in the final cut of the movie. She just randomly has this leaf in her hand right before we see the first dinosaur, and she comments on it with no explanation how she got it.
• Laura had a scene cut due to the Conspicuous Consumption going against the spirit of rationing during World War II. To give an idea of how much, the scene included the eponymous Laura wearing several expensive outfits, including a pear decorated cape, and a mid-length fur skirt.
• Lawrence of Arabia's "balcony scene," an extended version of the sequence where General Allenby talks Lawrence out of resigning. When the movie was restored in 1989, the editors couldn't fit it into the existing film without damaging the continuity. There were also concerns that the actor dubbing Jack Hawkins' dialogue wasn't a convincing soundalike. This scene was included on the 2012 Blu-Ray release as a special feature.
• The 1963 adaptation of Lord of the Flies had a scene from the original book with Ralph and Jack that was cut from the final release. It can be viewed in the DVD release of the 1963 adaptation.
• The extended editions of The Lord of the Rings films had loads of these included. Better yet, there's even more footage that hasn't been released to date; it's mostly from the ending of the film (every character would have gotten their own epilogue).
• The Mask. Originally, after Peggy sold out Stanley to Tyrell he tossed her into a printing press at the newspaper she worked for.
  Tyrell: "You'll be all over Page One!"
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail has a famously deleted sequence in which Dingo breaks the fourth wall to comment on the writers, with other characters popping up Vox Pops-style, most of them saying, "Get on with it!" It was restored to TV and video versions in the 1980s.
• Episode 38 of Monty Python's Flying Circus originally began with a choreographed number on behalf of the Conservative and Unionist Party which is absent from most prints.
• In the theatrical version of The Muppet Christmas Carol, the song "When Love is Gone" was cut for reasons of pacing, then it was re-added in the VHS release, then cut again on the widescreen DVD (the second DVD release had it, but only in fullscreen).
• In Mystery Men, one of the deleted scenes on the DVD shows an alternate method of destroying Casanova Frankenstein's machine: rather than throw The Bowler's bowling ball into it, they were going to throw one of Dr. Heller's Tornado-in-a-Can into it. The effect for this can still however be seen in the theatrical release; just after they toss the bowling ball in and it does its damage you can see the green swirling smoke coming out of the hole.
• In-Universe in the Korean film The President's Last Bang. Korean censors ordered newsreel clips (of 1979 protests at the beginning, and President Park's funeral at the end) deleted. The film as released shows a black screen with titles noting that the scene was deleted due to orders from the government. The black screen stays up until the newsreels were supposed to end, after which the film starts, and later the credits roll at the end.
• Reservoir Dogs has a deleted scene where Mr. Orange gets briefed on the past of Larry Dimmick/Mr. White. Quentin Tarantino cut it because he felt it spoiled the audience too early. If left in the scene would have broken the film's Chromosome Casting, as Orange is briefed by a female detective played by Nina Siemaszko.
• Riddick: There was a scene removed from the theatrical version that continues after Riddick escapes the planet where he goes back to the Necromongers to find that it was Krone who really betrayed him, and Vaako has crossed into the Underverse. It was restored in the extended cut.
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show:
  • The DVD has the song "Superheroes" brought back to its full length - for those who have only seen the old American cut, the Criminologist's cryptic poem is the final stanza.
  • "Once In A While" appeared on the 20th anniversary VHS, the 25th anniversary DVD, and the 35th anniversary Blu-Ray. None of these incorporated the scene into the movie, however - leaving fans to do their own editing.
• Similarly, the trailer for the original The Santa Clause includes a shot of Scott and another character conversing in front of a playroom, with Scott giving his acquaintance a big grin.
• Some television broadcasts of Scooby-Doo cut out an entire flashback sequence where Mystery Inc. kicks Scrappy-Doo off the team, likely so as not to broadcast the seconds-long sequence where Scrappy urinates on Daphne's cleavage to "mark his territory," which is the reason he's thrown out (along with his general obnoxiousness). Unfortunately, this scene's removal for TV broadcasting also results in the removal of a key plot point that helps a later scene in the film to make more sense, namely, Scrappy's desire for revenge for that unceremonious ousting motivating his role as the Big Bad.
• The movie version of Sin City had a director's cut which added more scenes, making the film even more faithful to its source.
• Society of the Snow had approximately 600 hours of usable footage filmed.
  • The real Zerbino's cameo as a rugby coach.
  • Numa playing soccer with the San Ignacio de Loyola soccer club, which also included Pancho Delgado, Coche Inciarte, Arturo Nogueira and Julio Martínez-Lamas, also featuring Gastón Cibilis and Alfredo Cibilis on the bleachers, cheering them on.
  • The characters at the bar listening to the news about Salvador Allende’s government in Chile.
  • “La Barra” (friend group made up of Daniel Storm, Coco, Roy, Bobby and Carlitos) messing around in their cars, throwing and catching a rugby ball on the way to the airport.
  • Roberto and Laura in the airport.
  • Alvaro kissing Margarita goodbye at the airport
  • Scenes with Numa and his family, including with his twin brother, Leonardo.
  • An unspecified scene between Diego Storm and Julio Martínez-Lamas.
  • Susy holding on to her mother during the turbulence.
  • Numerous shots of the aftermath of the crash.
  • Diego Storm draining and dressing a big hematoma in Tintín’s arm.
  • Enrique Platero’s stomach wound being dressed by Gustavo.
  • Carlos Valeta walking in the snow after (briefly) surviving his fall from the plane, and the other survivors calling for him.
  • Pancho Delgado asking where is Gastón.
  • The Strauch cousins and Zerbino asking Roque where they are on the map.
  • Canessa arguing with Roque and getting angry at him for being a crew member, and Roque having to explain his position as a mechanic.
  • Roque telling Numa about the plane’s batteries.
  • Carlitos and Álvaro hanging out outside the fuselage with Carlitos drinking from a small glass bottle.
  • Liliana arguing with Roberto because he didn’t want to take care of Susy.
  • Someone taking Susy’s boots off and discovering she no longer had blood circulation in her legs.
  • Numa helping Liliana treat Susana.
  • Coco (and possibly Diego Storm) talking about the beaches in Brazil.
  • Coco and Carlitos carrying Susy’s body outside the fuselage.
  • Pedro Algorta confronting Numa about something.
  • The Strauch cousins planning who would be the one to bring the idea of eating the bodies to Marcelo.
  • A scene with a severed head, and scenes of the characters cutting bones open to eat bone marrow, cut because Bayona found it too disturbing.
  • Carlitos crying over Coco’s body.
  • Javier leading a group game, that ends with the group in complete silence after he asks whether Superman could defeat the mountains.
  • A failed expedition with Roy, Carlitos and Tintín, that traps them in a storm and cements Tintín’s spot in the expedition team
  • Nando, Canessa, Tintín and Roy spending the night at the tail.
  • Roy Harley almost dying on the trip back from the tail, which leads into an intense moment between him and Nando.
  • Zerbino carrying Numa’s body outside the fuselage.
  • Alvaro crying next to Numa’s body.
  • Fito fitting Tintín with improvised snow shoes.
  • Some parents going into some search efforts, including Carlos Paez Vilaró and Coco’s father aboard the C47.
  • Pablo Vierci’s appearance as a reporter (his scene was cut, but his narration kept in the film).
  • Nando and Roberto’s first interview in Los Maitenes while waiting for the helicopters.
  • Canessa’s father learning that his son survived while on a taxi.
  • The survivors first medical exams and interviews in Los Maitenes.
  • Roy being hugged by his mother.
  • The reunion between Carlitos and his father.
  • Roy and Fito in an ambulance.
  • Álvaro reuniting with Margarita, his girlfriend.
  • Coche reuniting with Soledad, his fiancé.
  • Pancho underwater in a bathtub.
  • Pancho, Carlitos and Canessa sneaking into the hospital’s kitchen and raiding it for food, including a whole cake.
  • Numa's family and Alfredo Cibilis listening to the list of survivors at the Turcatti’s house, and their reactions to learning about his death.
• The various Spider-Man films had large chunks taken out in post-production, some of which was restored via director's cuts or extended versions:
  • Spider-Man has a number of deleted subplots and scenes, including the infamous "World Trade Center web" trailer that was reportedly cut from the film after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Likewise, there were deleted scenes from early trailers and story descriptions (including a sequence of Peter building mechanical webshooters, which was seen on a trailer that debuted at E3 2001 and a reported cameo by Eddie Brock, who was played by a minor actor) that still haven't been officially released.
  • Spider-Man 2 had so much deleted content that it was eventually released in an extended version called Spider-Man 2.1. Even then, there's a TV version that has additional scenes that weren't included in the 2.1 cut (including Mary Jane flippantly telling Peter that she's got a boyfriend while they're talking outside his house).
  • Spider-Man 3 had boatloads of footage cut prior to release, with much of it only being seen in trailers or early screenings. This included more subplots like Sandman's quest to cure his daughter's sickness, an alternate scene of Eddie Brock joining forces with Sandman while the latter is playing with his daughter at a park, a sequence where a distraught Mary Jane speaks to Peter about Harry in his apartment just before she's kidnapped, and much more footage of Peter taking out criminals in the symbiote costume (and being confronted by a nightmarish reflection in his mirror). Some scenes make an appearance in Spider-Man 3: Editor's Cut. The reason Harry's butler waited until 3 to explain how he knew Norman's death was an accident was because a deleted scene showed that he was a hallucination, which fills a major plot gaffe.
  • The Amazing Spider-Man had a few scenes cut that didn't really add much to the plot and probably dragged on too long. Other deleted scenes, however, would have added a lot of characterization and depth: Connors begging Peter to help him after the fight in the school, afraid the police will kill him (and Peter, after clear hesitation, doing so); Connors talking to his son. There was also an extensive scene that featured Peter and Connors talking the sewers, with Connors asking Peter if he'd give up his power and Peter realizing they're similar. It also would have clarified what happened to Ratha: the Lizard bit his head off. Most of this scene was fully rendered, implying it was cut very late in production. Part of it still appears in the theatrical release but it has been re-cut in such a way to remove Peter, making it seem like Connors is talking to himself.
• The initial television broadcast of the Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan movie included deleted scenes never seen before. These included the fleshing out of Peter Preston and more scenes with Saavik, among others. Some of these scenes were restored for the Director's Cut.
• This is Spın̈al Tap is possibly the king of deleted scenes. Between the Criterion DVD, MGM DVD, and bootlegged workprint, nearly FIVE HOURS of deleted scenes are in circulation, featuring truckloads of bad language, explicit drug use, male and female nudity, countless forgotten subplots, Nigel being racist and even a wealth of material leading up to Derek having the cucumber in his pants. Oh yes, and a total of ten minutes in which nothing happens but Tommy Pischedda (Bruno Kirby) telling stories about Sinatra.
• The Watchmen director's cut edition restores twenty-four minutes of scenes cut for time. As the full version is over three hours, it's really easy to see why.
• Wild Things: Several scenes were not included in the film, including one that expands on Suzie's motives for the Gambit Pileup scheme: She's actually an unacknowledged heir to the Van Ryan estate. Sandra Van Ryan's late father was an adulterous philanderer with a love of hookers, meaning Suzie is Sandra's half-sister. Of course, this makes her seducing Sandra's daughter Kelly a lot more squicky in hindsight as well, which is probably why it ended up being cut.
• There's 20 minutes of footage left out of the final cut of The Wolfman (2010) that is featured on the DVD. For example, there's a scene where Wolfman!Lawrence bursts into a masquerade ball during his London rampage and then proceeds to kill and splatter blood on the guests. It was in the trailers, but didn't make it into the theatrical release.

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• Beverly Hills Cop II had a deleted scene from the Shooting Club where Axel, Rosewood, and Taggart must carefully sneak past a hallway with several lasers covering it. Axel tells Taggart to blow cigar smoke across the floor to expose the lasers and the trio have to carefully straddle the lasers and sneak across the hallway to Dent's office. According to Tony Scott, this scene was deleted because it slowed the pacing of the movie too much and because it was "too far removed from reality" and it clashed with the overall tone of the movie. The deleted scene can be viewed in the DVD extras.
• John Hughes' original cut of The Breakfast Club was 2/12 hours long.
  • When Andy's father tells him, "No school's going to give a scholarship to a discipline case", he originally followed up with "Not a white one, anyway."
  • Carl predicts where the five kids will be in 30 years. Bender will have killed himself, Claire will have had "2 boob jobs and a face lift," Brian will have become very successful but die of a heart attack due to the stress of the high paying job. Allison will be a great poet but no one will care, and Andrew will marry a gorgeous airline stewardess who will become fat after having kids.
  • In a dream sequence, Allison imagines Andrew as a gluttonous Viking, Bender as a prisoner, Claire as a bride, Brian as an astronaut, and herself as a vampire. In an unfilmed alternative to this dream sequence, all five kids imagine random things, including cars, naked women, Godzilla, beer, and fighter planes, and these things end up filling the room until Vernon interrupts.
  • After Bender demonstrates "Life at Big Bri's house" Brian stops Bender and corrects him with a much more pessimistic version of the skit. Claire then proceeds to act out her life before asking Bender to demonstrate his version. Bender's routine changes as well here. After Bender mimics his mom, he stops, commenting that "then they make me work to pay off the dentist for the teeth HE busts."
  • The scene where Andrew and Allison are walking to get the sodas is extended to a point where Allison pulls out a pack of cigarettes and smokes one.
  • After getting the sodas, Bender shakes his can violently and places it among the five to see who gets the rigged one. Allison ends up getting it, and when she opens the can, all the soda squirts directly into her mouth.
  • After Vernon asks who has to use the lavatory, the five go to the bathroom. Vernon gives the boys 2 minutes and the girls 3 minutes. Claire catches Allison in a stall eating a bag of chips, repulsing her. Bender mocks Brian for sitting down to pee instead of using a urinal.
  • When the group is sitting in the circle and Allison mentions that she can write (and do other things) with her toes, she was going to follow up with an actual demonstration.
  • Additional cut content includes an extended version of the pot smoking scene, in which Brian and Claire are seen singing "All My Lovin'" by The Beatles and a new scene in which Allison breaks into the teachers' lockers using a switchblade, where she finds a copy of the Prince album 1999, remarking "You know what this means? They're human." Several other differences between the definitive and uncut versions of the film have been noted, chiefly an extended make-out scene, in which not only Bender and Claire are seen kissing, but also Andy and Allison; lastly, during Hughes' small cameo as Brian's dad in the final scene (a performance which he later criticized), he was originally given the short line “Buckle up.”
  • A scene in which Mr. Vernon is caught peeking in on a naked female teacher swimming ended up being unfilmed after Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy personally asked Hughes to cut it.
• The Crow (1994):
  • The arcade demolition scene includes footage of the gang harassing and tying up the arcade clerk. She watches as the bomb's timer ticks down. Draven encounters the dying, burnt woman after the explosion and accidentally takes in her memory of the attack.
  • In the extended version of the arcade demolition, one of the gang members mentions the Detroit River. Although the film takes place in Detroit, no mention of the city is in the final cut of the film (except for a reference to 'Motor City').
  • Funboy wakes up in the bathtub and grabs the razor. He attacks Eric and cuts his hands and torso. Because Eric has weakened himself by getting the morphine out of Darla, he cannot heal properly. (This would have been explained by the Skull Cowboy, but those scenes were also cut.) To cover the wounds, he wraps them in black electrical tape. This explains why his hands and stomach are wrapped up later in the movie.
  • The shootout in Top Dollar's penthouse contains a bit of additional dialogue and more explicit bloodshed.
  • Skank gets shot in the leg by someone robbing the liquor store from which he was ordered to get smokes and road beers. This scene was supposed to show that crime is indiscriminant and even happens to criminals. This is why Skank is limping when he runs after T-Bird's car.
  • The scene in which Eric dies was changed - the original footage has been destroyed or is in police hands as evidence. The gun used is no longer wrapped in a grocery bag, and Eric (now Brandon's stunt double) is shot in the back instead of in the abdomen. Scenes showing his face were altered with digital effects and makeup, or reshot from different angles.
• Doctor... Series:
  • Four minutes of Doctor in Clover were cut from the original British release but were retained when shown in countries such as Sweden.
  • The BBFC ordered some shots of a topless Ophelia to be cut from Doctor in Trouble in order to avoid an X certificate.
• Gremlins:
  • Mr. Peltzer is looking in a store in Chinatown, with a shopkeeper who doesn't know a word of English, when he is greeted by the Chinese boy, who leads Mr. Peltzer to the boy's grandfather's shop.
  • Billy is lectured by his boss, Mr. Corben, for being 17 minutes late.
  • Billy looks at his drawings, for a comic strip, in his room.
  • Billy sees the reverend on the street. The reverend tries to give Billy his Christmas card, but he can't find it in his pile, so he just tells Billy he will mail it to him.
  • Kate shows Billy Mrs. Deagle's plans to sell their houses and build a Nuclear plant. They are then discovered by Gerald, who says he will let them out easy if Kate will go out with him. Kate refuses, and Gerald notes she is tough, just like him.
  • Stripe listens to a bunch of carolers, while hidden in the snow (actually, according to the commentary, he is singing along and making the carolers wonder who's off key, but there is no audio for Stripe).
  • Mr. Futterman tells his wife that Mrs. Deagle has closed down the noodle factory where he worked for good. His wife then reassures him that there is more to life than macaroni.
  • Billy and Kate find Mr. Corben with a clock smashed on his head. They then find Gerald in the vault. Billy tries to free Gerald, however Gerald thinks that Billy wants to free him just so Billy and Kate would get promotions (Gerald presumably would now have Mr. Corben's job). Billy then closes the vault and tells Kate that Gerald will be better off in there and they will come and get him later. This scene has been shown in at least a few television edits of the film.
• Gremlins 2: The New Batch:
  • The Gremlins release all of the animals in the "Splice o' Life" lab. During the filming of this scene, the monkeys in the lab set were genuinely so terrified of the Gremlin puppets, that they refused to leave their cages when their trainers called for them.
  • George, Lenny and Daffy sneak into Grandpa Fred's studio and "help" him host, which worked because Grandpa Fred's show was supposed to be scary. A still from this scene was used on the video cover. These scenes, among others, were cut as Steven Spielberg felt that there were too many Gremlins.
  • A voice says "You know, I've been thinking, Mr. Clamp would make a great President."
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off:
  • Ferris asks his dad on the phone about bonds his father purchased when he was born, he then takes one of them from a shoebox in his father's closet, cashes it at the bank with his girlfriend (telling the hard-of-hearing teller they are pregnant with a jeep), and uses the money to pay for his day off. It was removed because it made Ferris look like a thief rather than a Lovable Rogue
  • At one point in the film there was a scene in which Ferris, Cameron, and Sloane would visit a Chicago radio station and Ferris would talk about how "come next year, I'll be the first kid to ride on the Space Shuttle". It was even featured in the film's trailer. Unfortunately, however, less than five months before the film was to be released, the Challenger exploded 73 seconds after launch, resulting in the deaths of all seven aboard, including New Hampshire school teacher Christa McAuliffe. Because of this, John Hughes had the trailer recalled from theaters and the line was edited out of the final film.
  • Ferris orders something in French on the menu, and after everyone at the table tastes it, he is informed by the snooty waiter that he ordered "sweetbreads", which is a French dish made from the thymus gland. It was removed because it showed the waiter getting the better of Ferris, but later in the movie when Ferris is recounting the day to Cameron, he remarks "we ate pancreas".
  • Extended scenes with the garage attendant and his co-pilot in Chicago avoiding run-ins with Ferris, Cameron, and Sloan; such as at Wrigley field.
  • The trio go on a Chicago riverboat.
  • Extended Cab scene downtown where John Kapelos plays the cab driver.
  • Extended dialogue between Cameron and Sloan while Ferris sings Danke Schoen in the parade.
  • Extended scene where Charlie Sheen's character's name is revealed to be Garth Volbeck.
• The Killer (1989):
  • Li rescuing Jennie from some muggers in the same manner that Ah Jong does. It also includes a nice little reveal where we see that Ah Jong has seen the whole thing. The scene continues with Li taking Jennie back to her apartment, and Li seeing Ah Jong watching from outside.
  • Li arriving at Ah Jong's apartment after the shoot-out just as the former is leaving.
  • Ah Jong and Jennie driving from the airport and arriving at Fung Sei's safe house.
  • Ah Jong and Jennie having breakfast at the house. Then Fung Sei arrives.
  • Paul arrives by the creek and finds Ah Jong's bandages.
• Lethal Weapon (1987):
  • Riggs originally had a different introduction. In it, Riggs is sitting alone in a bar getting drunk. He finishes off one bottle of Jack Daniels and orders another, but the bartender, both concerned for and wary of Riggs, cuts him off. Riggs stumbles into the back and is accosted by two hoodlums. He tries to warn them off, but they don't listen. He ends up crippling them and the bartender is not surprised. He tells Riggs as a friend to get out. Richard Donner felt it was too dark to open the film with. He felt that with the show of violence, viewers would judge Riggs' character before they got the chance to know him. Hence, he changed Riggs' introduction to the lighter, funnier morning scene in his trailer.
  • The Blu-Ray release contains deleted scenes not in the Director's Cut. Murthaugh's family scene was longer, with him interacting with Carrie and chastising Rianne for spending money on shoes; the jumper scene is longer; the fight in the pool is longer; Josuha surprises Rianne and her boyfriend before kidnapping her (which happens offscreen); and Riggs reassuring Carrie they'll rescue Rianne.
• Looney Tunes: Back in Action:
  • The alternate opening has Daffy Duck as Daffy Danger trying to defeat Elmer Fudd. It turns out to be a film pitch that was rejected. It was recycled for the video game.
  • One particular deleted scene explains why the ACME employees have to push the buzzer buttons. If they don't, they get wrapped up in plastic.
• Major League: One of the best lines in the film ended up on the cutting room floor (it can be viewed on You-Tube). Jake, Vaughn, and Hayes are eating dinner after their loss to the Yankees where Vaughn walked the bases loaded and gave up a grand slam.
  Jake: "That ball wouldn't have been out of most parks".
  Vaughn: "Name one".
  Jake: "Yellowstone".
• The BBFC ordered cuts to On the Buses to maintain an A certificate. These cuts were reinstated for the DVD release.
• Once Upon a Time in the West:
  • A scene cut from the film has Harmonica being beaten up by the Sheriff. This explains why he has scars on his face.
  • The premiere version featured a long scene between Jill confronting Wobbles and Wobbles reporting to Frank and Morton (as Harmonica follows him). Harmonica chased Wobbles onto a crowded passenger train and searched for him among the passengers, until he notices that Wobbles has slipped away.
  • Another cut scene had Frank getting a shave at a perfume shop where he'd sit in the exact same position as Fonda's Wyatt Earp in My Darling Clementine. This would have occurred just before the Flagstone auction.
  • Oddly, the brief scene of Harmonica sitting up and nursing his injury after the opening gunfight at the train station was cut from the original Italian version, only to be restored for the shorter American/British cut (probably the only scene unique to the latter). Presumably this was because the tavern scene was cut, and Harmonica's fate would remain unclear until much later in the film.
• Pulp Fiction:
  • The scene where Vincent buys heroin from Lance is longer and Lance delivers a monologue about being given wrong directions and complaining about how rude people are.
  • Before leaving to have dinner to the Jackrabbit Slim's, Mia interviews Vincent while shooting with a hand-held video camera. Mia asks Vincent if he's related to folk singer Suzanne Vega and then proceeds with a series of trivia-like questions on his personal preferences (The Brady Bunch or The Partridge Family?) and asks him if he's an "Elvis man or a Beatles man". This explains a later comment ("An Elvis man should love this") that Mia makes in the theatrical version.
  • The taxi ride and conversation between Butch and Esmarelda are longer and there's additional dialogue where Butch explains his feelings about being a boxer and killing his opponent Floyd.
  • At the auto parts yard, Winston Wolf and the yard owner's daughter flirt and make plans for breakfast.
• Reservoir Dogs:
  • Two alternate angles of the ear-slicing scene, one of which is more graphic.
  • A lengthy sequence concerning a background check on Mr. White (whose full name is revealed to be Lawrence Dimick). This sequence also features a female speaking part (there are none in the theatrical release) played by Nina Siemaszko.
  • A car scene featuring Mr. White, Mr. Pink, and Nice Guy Eddie after they leave Mr. Blonde with the cop and Mr. Orange.
  • Freddie (Mr. Orange) and his partner discuss in more detail the semantics of the undercover operation.
• The Ring has a couple of these, which can be seen in the DVD.
  • A scene with Rachel and her sister in Katie's bedroom, which sets up the infamous jumpscare of Katie's corpse in the closet (in the final movie, the set-up is reduced to Ruth saying "I saw her face..." before cutting to the jumpscare).
  • Noah visiting Rachel's apartment while she is away, being teased by Aidan's babysitter when he insists on entering Rachel's bedroom, and finding Katie's distorted photos.
  • Noah going to the Shelter Mountain Inn, only to learn that the owner died a while back, having watched the video.
  • Rachel interacting with people from Moesko Island, which implies that the Morgans secretly conceived Samara through supernatural means, rather than "adopting" her (this subplot is contracted in the official sequel, where the couple really did adopt her).
  • Rachel reading some humorous notes in the cabin right before watching the cursed tape.
  • Rachel going to a video rental store, then leaving Aidan's copy of the cursed video there, which was supposed to end the film. Another deleted scene instead has Rachel leaving the video to be watched by a convict on death row (played by Chris Cooper).
• Snatch.:
  • Turkish and Tommy go to a pub to meet Brick Top for the first time;
  • Sol and Vinnie try to open Franky Four Fingers' briefcase before Boris the Blade comes to pick it up. They finally get Franky to open it and he manages to get the gun Boris gave him out of it, but the gun doesn't work;
  • Errol and John (Brick Top's henchmen) go talk to Mullet to find out who robbed the bookies;
  • Bullet Tooth Tony and Avi go to Brick-Top's pub to meet him. Tony has a beef with Errol and has to draw a sword to keep Brick Top's henchmen at bay.
  • Brick Top tries to sell Avi the diamond that Sol and Vinny gave him. Avi examines the stone and immediately figures out it's a fake (the same one Lincoln tried to pawn at the beginning of the movie). He throws it into a wall, where it smashes into little pieces. Meanwhile Sol and Vinny, who are locked into Brick Top's office, keep arguing and trying to escape;
  • Vinny and Sol go to the pikeys' camp to find the dog and ask Mickey if he's seen him, but the dog's not there.
• True Romance:
  • An extended sequence at the Sonny Chiba movie. Jack Black appears as a theater attendant shooing everyone out after the movie is over.
  • An extended scene where Clarence shows Alabama his store.
  • A bathtub scene with Clarence and Alabama, in which they discuss Janis Joplin. Patricia Arquette does nudity in this scene. A piece of this scene appears in the theatrical trailer.
  • The billboard scene (where Alabama comes clean) is slightly extended. Clarence proposes marriage to Alabama, and she accepts.
  • The "do you eat pussy" scene is slightly extended with more dialogue, especially from Big Don.
  • A car scene with Clarence, Alabama, and Dick in which Alabama explains how she got her name.
  • The scene in which Clarence first shows Dick the cocaine is slightly extended with more dialogue.
  • A scene featuring Vincenzo in an elevator with his bodyguards. They talk about drug related matters and then walk down a hallway threatening to get Clarence and Alabama. The latter portion of this scene appears in the theatrical trailer.
  • Extended scene where Elliot prepares to be "wired".
  • An extended sequence of Alabama, Clarence, and Dick preparing to enter Lee's loft to sell the cocaine. They contemplate whether they should do it or not.
  • A brief scene in which Elliot is "motivating" himself to enter wearing the wire.
• White Wolves: Several scenes from the second movie are mysteriously cut from the DVD release, most notably Mr. B inviting Ben on the trip, Adam nursing Cara, and Scott briefly freezing while he's climbing down the cliff face.

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