OVERALL: R0

Make sure you get the Extended Cut.

This has also been released in:
- Australia by Shock Entertainment
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CUTS:

• R0 United Kingdom- Eureka - Yes - see restored scenes under the Extended Cut (81:20 PAL).
• R0 Extended Cut United Kingdom- Eureka - No known cuts - 9:31 longer than the original Eureka release (90:51 PAL).
  However, BBFC give the 1950 submitted runtime as 111:07, but no details of the cuts. IMDB quote 95 mins, consistent with PAL speed-up.
  Restored scenes (courtesy DVD Outsider):
  - A new opening scene has David arriving at an unspecified British airport (London? - Rewind Team) at night, greeting a customs officer by his first name and admitting he has no passport and being let through to see the airport security officer.
  - The scene where David reports to his boss starts earlier and a conversation between them reveals that he was injured on this latest job and further suggests he may be past his service prime.
  - The scene is also extended in its second half, with David told he will receive a decoration, "for the times you didn't miss."
  - Instead of fading out when David leaves the office, the scene continues as his boss makes a call to tell Willy that David has just left.
  - A scene follows in which Willy meets David in a bar and the two chat briefly about their (fake) careers – David is apparently a newspaperman, Willy cheerfully unemployed.
  - The employment agency scene with Richard Wattis starts earlier and establishes that apart from his skill with languages and experience as a newspaperman, David has no formal qualifications and that he'd rather be known as Mr. Sommers than Major Sommers.
  - Following David's departure to the garden after his first conversation with Sophie, there's a new scene in which Fenton outlines the basics of his cataloguing system to David, followed by a fade-out and shot of David at work later and lot in thought, which is disrupted by the sound of an arriving lorry.
  - After Jess tells Sophie she shouldn't take advantage of David, a new scene has been inserted in which Sommers delivers an envelope to Jess given to him by Hick, ostensibly an invoice but clearly a letter, one Jess reacts coldly to and slowly tears up.
  - Immediately following this is a key sequence in which David is unable to sleep and Sophie, after a restless sleep, wakes, secretly leaves the house and heads across the gardens outside, observed by Jess from her room. This gives the suggestion that she may have been responsible for the murder a lot more weight.
  - After David's boss offers to lend the police superintendent one of their men, there's a new scene of David and Sophie on the beat journey listening to news of the police search for them on the radio.
  - An additional short scene has been reinstated of Sophie hiding from the police as she makes her way through the docks and pursued by the killer.
  - The warehouse chase runs for twice as long and the tension is increased as a result.
  - Sophie reaches the warehouse roof a realises she may be trapped. The police drive up below.
  - There are more shots of the police and Sophie on the roof, and David calls out for the crane to be lowered. The killer reaches the roof and Sophie climbs up to the top.

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Comparison added by Nigel_Badnell on 17/11/10
Comparison last updated by Samuel_Scott on 26/04/11

UPDATE LOG:

17/11/10 - Initial entry.
26/04/11 - Noted Australian release.