@5:15 - LUCAS: "And I did have a bunch of meetings with the executives where they wanted to, ya know, take the end of the movie ... and put that at the head of the movie. ... Finally, they cut about five minutes out of it. You know, it didn't make any sense. ... We don't understand it. We don't want to understand it. But we know that if we cut five minutes out of it, it'll make it shorter."

Confirming Warner didn't make an Italian-like cut for the U.S. release, as suggested by other sources quoted here previously (some time ago).