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I had the same question about the opening and wondered how it would play in a theater with the hand ripping open the credits at the end and becoming the full Panavision image. It is an amazing film--the lighting,the music, the locations, the supporting cast, and the extras. It took me two-thirds of the way through the film to "get" the deliberate casting of the bland Lynley (who has an amazing resemblance to Dullea). As a meditation on identity, it would make a wonderful double-bill with Powell's PEEPING TOM.
Charles Hoyt
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