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Contraband AKA Luca Il Contrabbandiere AKA The Smuggler AKA The Naples Connection (1980)
Cigarette smugglers in Naples run into problems with cocaine operations being set up by a rival smugglerDirector: Lucio Fulci
Year of Copyright: 1980
Year of Production: 1979-80
OVERALL: Draw-
OVERALL: Draw
The UK release is uncut with an anamorphic transfer, and has the original Italian audio.
The Scandinavian release is uncut with an anamorphic transfer and has an exclusive featurette, but only with the English dub track. -
CUTS:
- R0 America- Blue Underground - No cuts (96:45 NTSC)
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R0 Holland- Italian Shock Entertainment - Yes - Cut by about 0:30 (91:48 PAL)
The following cuts have been made:
- Cuts to the machine-gun death of Luca's brother
- Cuts to the violent rape sequence.
- At 20:50: Men falling forward (~30 frames)
- At 49:21: 3 back shots have been shortened (~1.5 second)
- At 49:52: A close-up of the back of the head/breaking (~6 frames)
- At 68:17: Various frontal views with neck shot / (~15 frames)
- At 84:21: 2 shots seem strongly darkened
- At 88:08: The final chest-shot (~10 frames) and a man falling in close-up (~28 frames) have been shortened - R0 Shameless Fan Edition United Kingdom- Shameless Screen Entertainment - No cuts (92:52 PAL)
- R2 Limited Edition Germany- MIB - No cuts
- R2 Scandinavia- Another World Entertainment - No cuts (92:19 PAL)
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Comparison added by Hans_Kristian_Senneseth on 10/03/03
Comparison last updated by Rick_Curzon on 02/08/22UPDATE LOG:
05/07/14: added UK release.
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04/12/16: corrected/added UK details.
27/07/20: Updated winner notes, UK.
28/07/22: Caps-a-holic.
02/08/22: Dates.
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