title sequence. Reason: the opening was  deemed too violent that showed police on night patrol shooting an  escaped ape and discovering his body covered with welts and bruises  that are evidence of severe abuse (in a later scene while Armando is  being interrogated, Governor Breck refers to the ape that physically  assaulted his master to which McDonald retorts that the attack must  have been the result of severe mistreatment). That; and many other  bloody images were deleted after a pre