I’d forgotten that, and yes, the distance of time would account for possible confusion without that at this late date.
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Yes indeed, a Dallas native, and it used to be a great place to experience the roadshow attractions. The Sound of Music actually had its initial Dallas run at the Inwood and ran I believe for just over a year. Hard to imagine such a thing anymore, but hit movies were “held over” as long as the BO demand lasted, and obviously The Sound of Music had multitudes of repeat patrons. The theater is still open, though the balcony was long ago remodeled into two smaller screen venues. But that’s where Camelot and Star! and Sweet Charity and many other roadshows had their local premieres.
91 weeks at the Inwood.
The longer time is attributed to a preview length. Original premiere is the 3hr 41minutes plus intermission length. Though I found the premiere length to be quite long I would look forward to seeing it again.
My understanding is the film had multiple lengths due to director Stevens tinkering with it, probably under studio pressure, so the varying running times aren’t necessarily incorrect, depending on the time frame of when an audience saw it during early previews, its initial first run roadshow engagements, up to the loathsome cut that took it under 2 1/2 hours. I do believe Stevens initially intended the film to run over four hours, which United Artists nixed.
Correct.
I’ve never heard that it was shown at that length, may have just been an early rough cut. It was notoriously long in production and troubled, and George Stevens it was said never recovered from the trauma of finalizing and getting it released. I did see his follow up and final film, The Only Game in Town (1970), but other than my movie going high school BFF, don’t know anyone else who did.
Possibly a local record. I lived about 20 miles south but didn’t move to Dallas until Summer of 1967, so always had access to Dallas theater venues; I ended up about 6 miles north of the Inwood. But with that timing in mind, it likely was immediately followed by Hawaii, also of course starring Julie Andrews, since I know it played the Inwood as well. To be sure, that film didn’t play nearly as long there.
I did and I also have the Twilight Time Blu-ray disc.
I don't see Paint Your Wagon hitting blu, unless maybe with Ensign Pulver and Camelot in a "Bombs of Joshua Logan" collection.
