8 Movies Where The US Version DELETED The Best Scenes

8. Highlander - Connor And Rachel's Origin Story

No one is going to sit here and argue that Highlander is a film that boasts some of the finest acting performances ever committed to the big screen. But the feature generally comes with a boatload of charm, a trait that ultimately ensured its cult hit status.

What you may not be aware of, however, is the fact that this Sean Connery and Christopher Lambert-starring epic actually had two very different cuts dished out upon its 1986 release. The U.S. version of the film had a whole eight minutes trimmed from the runtime, with a lot of what was seen as "European comedy" cut. Yet, one cut director Russel Mulcahy simply couldn't understand was the decision to delete one of the film's most engaging moments.

Those watching in the U.S. version were deprived of the scene depicting the first meet between Connor MacLeod and Rachel Ellenstein, a scene which saw the immortal man save his eventual-adopted daughter from a Nazi solider in WWII.

Sure, the line "it's a king of magic" is something else, but the scene definitely helps inform the pair's relationship and who doesn't like watching Nazis get gunned down by immortal Scots?