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I went with the world's biggest BEN-HUR fan and he was grumbling and growling the whole time.


The L.A. Country Museum recently advertised a scre4ening of what they billed as a complete print of CLEOPATRA. Fortunately, one can tell during the very first scene whether it is, indeed, the roadshow version, or the shorter version (the sound and print quality wewre also sub-par). I got up, walked to the box-office, got my money back and went off to do something more rewarding (or, at least, productive).

If you and your "grumbling and growling" friend sat through the whole movie after first seeing how inferior the print was, you had no one to blame for your discomfort but yourselves.