 Eight minutes were cut from Contraband for its U.S. release; some just snips  here and there, others more major. The most regrettable loss is the opening  minutes of Veidts and Hobsons table scene at the Three Vikings Restaurant,  which in the U.S. version begins at the point when Veidt and Hobson begin  drinking together and look at Veidts watch. Another cut sequence shows black  male dancers and white female dancers in a nightclub production number [The  "White Negro" cabaret designed & executed by Hedley Briggs], a racial  combination that would have outraged much of white America at the time,  especially in the Southern states.