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for Polyglot....THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODY New Word......Aunt

FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD

Evelyn...Sissy Spacek in THE RING TWO

The Spanish ECSTACY poster is certainly better than the actual film!

1492, CONQUEST OF PARADISE...Overlong, Sprawling Epic LAWRENCE OF ARABIA

I agree that the film you listed were much too long, relative to the story they were telling. At the same time, however, films like MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, CHINATOWN, ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE, ANYMORE, MR. KLEIN, DAYS OF HEAVEN etc. are very successful at their two-hour length. I also agree that some short films are successful because of their length (or lack thereof) one in particular...THE OX-BOW INCIDENT.

for Ashtray...THE BIG HEAT New Word....Contrition

1. A young family depart on a voyage. (a grand piano has a dramatic spot in this film)

Nelson, Ricky

HE WALKED BY NIGHT He found a side entrance, gave it a try and found it was open. Soon he was out and running as fast as his feet would take him. He hailed a cab and decided to put Hollywood scorring out of the picture. He got off at Union Station and asked William Holden, who happened to be there, where the ticket windows were. Once there,he bought a ticket to the farthest locale he could find. That locale was...

Murphy, Mary Montgomery, George

Charleton Heston was in BEN HUR with Steven Boyd

ZABRISKIE POINT

ARLETTA, Jo Van Fleet in COOL HAND LUKE

ALGIERS...Hedy in Pearls SWORD IN THE DESERT

Marsha Mason was in ONLY WHEN I LAUGH with Joan Hackett

ASK ANY GIRL Angelica Houston James Wilbee Kristen Scott Thomas

By the sixties, newsreels, cartoons and short features were standard fare on TV, which people could watch when they wanted, and for free..that's why films got longer...and in my opinion, in many cases, better.I agree that a well edited film (with much of the fat removed) is the far better product than what we get today thanks to CGI and the infusion of fat in the form of explosions and gratuitous violence. In the seventies, however we got some excellent two-hour long films.

I'd like to see them show SALO uncut or edited...that would be an event!

It might be correct for a remake, but who would replace Burt Lancaster, Sophia Loren, Ava Gardner, Alida Valli, Ingrid Thulin and even Richard Harris? The original has flaws (the husband/wife friction) but it still works rather well for a disaster film. Most of the comments so far, are about when it was made...not the film itself.

Gwyneth Paltrow was in FLESH AND BONE with James Cahn

THE VOICE OF THE TURTLE

Wainwright, Sam...Frank Albertson in IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE

SUMMER AND SMOKE Geraldine Page Walter Matthau Henry Jones

Alan Rickman was in TRUELY MADLY DEEPLY with Juliet Stephenson