A crying shame, almost up there with the tragedy of the original cut of The Magnificent Ambersons…

… Time. It made the British Film Institute’s list of top Westerns. It’s in the Criterion Collection. Unfortunately, Brando’s edit cannot be viewed, or even re-assembled. (Paramount claimed that it destroyed all of the prints and negatives to recover the nitrate from the film stock.)
Brando, Peckinpah, and Kubrick (Almost) Make a Western
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Stephen Massicotte
Simon Dillon
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May 11, 2022
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A crying shame, almost up there with the tragedy of the original cut of The Magnificent Ambersons (I still hope the full version magically turns up someday).
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Written by Simon Dillon
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Novelist and Short Story-ist. Film and Book Lover. If you cut me, I bleed celluloid and paper pulp. Blog: www.simondillonbooks.wordpress.com
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