I appreciate you shared your thought with the rest of us and not left it to a private message. We need as many thoughts as possible here!

I can agree with your line of thought.

To be sure if this is a cut specifically designed for Italy or it has been distribuited like this also in other European countries we should check the old French version of the movie, they also dub foreign films and first released this in 1971 (on the contrary of Germany where it was only released on 1978, according to IMDb).

What's the Skywalking blurb?