Alternate Versions
In 1986 and 1994, Warner Brothers Home Video released an extended version on VHS that was 144 minutes long. Deleted scenes and additional footage were restored when Earth’s Final Fury (the film’s TV title) debuted on network television. It was released as the "expanded video edition" on VHS, with some of the additional scenes retaining their sporadic "fade to black" commercial edits.
Material from the restored footage included more screen time for the love triangle between Franciscus, Carrera, and Albert, and expanded Albert's role, which is little more than a cameo in the edited two-hour version. Scenes involving Karras' cockfighting exploits at Sam's and Mona's bar were also added. The original theatrical release runs at two hours, with the cockfighting subplot is nearly gone.
The caravan sequence where trucks make their way through the island is trimmed in the theatrical version, and the death of Cortese is not shown onscreen. It features scenes that didn't make it to the longer video edition: a humorous one where a winded Borgnine chases a jogging Buttons, plus a longer introduction to the characters of Franciscus and Hamel. A precarious ledge scene is slightly longer (and employs a shot of the dead farmer at the bottom of the cavern), as are shots of the survivors hiking through the jungle. In February 2009, it was released on DVD - the final Irwin Allen film to be released in that format - but was cut to only 109 minutes.
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