There's nothing really to "investigate." Stevens was massively behind schedule on the picture and had to bring in Lean to do all of the interior scenes with Claude Rains, and Negulesco for the Nativity and some scattered other shots early in the first act. The documentary He Walks in Beauty...
There's a UK 3-disc blu-ray coming out at the end of the month for TGSET. I just preordered it, though I have little hope it'll be a better scan than the previous releases.
I just bought that along with 10 or so other StudioCanal Vintage Classics discs earlier this month, so of course Criterion would announce this now...
But hey, maybe this means Criterion will be getting other StudioCanal titles back, like The Third Man, Kurosawa's Ran, the Ealing comedies, etc.
Funny you mention Titus the Moneylender, because he was already omitted from this first cut. I even have a letter that Walter Wanger sent to Currie in September 62, apologizing that they had to cut his scenes in the film.
Apologies for necro-posting this rather old discussion, but I've recently added a "smoking gun" document to my Cleopatra collection that made me think of this thread. I happened to discover an auction for a complete dialogue continuity for the original assembly cut, with markups for lines to be...
I'd be curious if any of the deleted scenes survive in any form anywhere? A few years back, I did a bunch of digging in Gregory Peck and William Wyler's collections out here in LA and discovered just how much material was filmed that was excised. I'd say another half hour or so, based on the...
The 30fps 65mm YCMs survived in good condition?! I feel like Christmas came early, just hearing that!
My wallet is ready and willing to shell out the quatloos needed to see the final product, Dave.