Excellent stuff

Its great seeing people on here saying how they saw it for the first time on the BBC earlier this year, cos thats where i came across it, this was back during the 80's when the beeb showed it. I managed to get hold of an ex-rental vhs copy from an old video library near us, that was typically squeezed out of business by blockbuster back in the 90's.
It was one of those video shops where you could rent long gone deleted titles and not just seventy copies of bloody Harry potter.
The version i've got is uncut, all the dialogue is there ,the only thing which seems to be cut, is when Freebie shoots the tranny in the toilets at the end. As the guy is shot and slides down the wall, he seems to leave blood on the wall, but the music seems to jump as the blood appears over his shoulder ?
Cant work this out as the blood doesnt splatter or anything , but its definitely a trim. I think its due to some of the racist banter that this is stalling to debut on dvd, but you've just got to take it in context of when it was made and to be fair the occasional things they say would have been just as racist at the time of its original release.
I think the point is they're both supposed to be as thick as two short planks, so the remarks only serve to highlite their ignorance, which i something we're constantly reminded of during the film.
This is a classic cop movie and it deserves a special edition, both Alan Arkin and James Caan are still with us, so there should be a commentary track at the very least, come on Warners ,pull your finger out!