director Cammell in a 90s documentary The Real Donald  Cammell the film originally featured roughly half an hour more of the  otherwise short opening (london gangster) section of the film. The idea being  that the film would show how the worlds of Chas,(Fox) and Turner,(Jagger)  were linked by the idea of performance. It is alleged by Cammell that these  scenes were cut at the suggestion of infamous London Gangsters the Kray  brothers, Ronnie and Reggie, for whom the scenes were too true to their  London underworld Firm to be shown. This footage is also referred to, as  are many other lost, cut or alternative scenes, in the numerous books  either on or concerning the film.