True, but 142 minutes is considerably shorter than 176 minutes (or 183 minutes). And also, MIDSUMMER was a film version of a Shakespeare play, not a biomusical.
Thank you, sir. I am aware of the length of those other films, but as you say, GONE WITH THE WIND was several years later, and as for the others, I'm rather amazed that THE GREAT ZIEGFELD was considerably longer than all of those.
Sorry I posted in the wrong place, let's try again: I have never seen this film, and I had no idea it's three hours long. Isn't that EXTREMELY unusual for a film made at that time?