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• All British versions prior to 1996 were cut by 1 min 26 secs by the UK censor on original release. The Redemption Video release restores this material from a U.S laserdisc.
  
  
• The UK R2 DVD features 2 versions of the film - the original UK version (labelled "The Director's Cut", with BBFC censor cuts restored via grainy, inferior quality inserts) and the Continental version (labelled "The Export Version") that has alternate takes of several tavern shots in which the various wenches are topless or have exposed breasts - in the UK version they are are more conservatively dressed - as well as extra scenes of torture and violence, notably additional axe blows to Price at the film's conclusion.
  
  
• UK cinema and early video versions were cut by 1 min 26 secs by the BBFC to edit scenes of torture, a woman being burnt alive and axe blows from the climactic fight in the castle cellar. Overseas prints of the film included alternative shots of topless nudity during the bar-room scenes. The complete and restored version was passed fully uncut by the BBFC and released on the Redemption video label in 1995, using footage restored from European laserdisc prints. Later UK DVD versions feature both the uncut UK cinema print (known as the 'Director's Cut') which restores the violence, and the European print (the 'Export Cut') which includes both the violence and the nude scenes.
  
  
• European release versions use alternate takes of the tavern scenes, including some nudity.
  
  
• The American version, retitled The Conqueror Worm, features opening and closing narration from Edgar Allen Poe's poem of the same name.
  
  
• The USA version, titled The Conqueror Worm, as well as having the reference to the Poe poem, replaces the film's original score by Paul Ferris with a different (although similar) score by Kendall Schmidt. UK prints under the title Witchfinder General have the correct original Ferris score.
  
  

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