Thanks zombie for bringing your thoughts on this to the thread instead, as I had not gotten the time to respond to your message yet, my "Robert Duvall's character narration" in the PM was misleading indeed, I simply forgot to mention one of the most important issues, the dubbing. ;)

My german isn't that good either but that german tv-broadcast seems to match SilverWooks descriptions of reordering of scenes, and it also seems to have the same extended Donald Pleasence scene, hmm... could someone perhaps translate those descriptions, please.