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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 440429" data-attributes="member: 57984">Two were quite enough.[insert here Roddy McDowall&#039;s nude photo of a very young, preternaturally gorgeous Elizabeth Taylor -- I can&#039;t find it.]I still wish they&#039;d find the missing 2 hours, as the exteriors of Rome and Egypt were removed for time (as well as the development of Antony &amp; Cleopatra&#039;s relationship, the edits turning their romance into a kissy-slappy soap). But back then, they didn&#039;t used to save such material, so it was likely destroyed, those millions of dollars wasted and lost forever.One of Joe Mank&#039;s sons asked, &#039;who wants to see a boring 6-hour movie version of a boring 4-hour movie?&#039;But I do.Someone should have told Daryl Zanuck to allow Mankiewicz to do an alternative full-length cut for TV, where they could make a huge bundle to offset the theatrical losses. But no one apparently thought of that... As it was, the sale to television set a record price anyway.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 440429, member: 57984"] Two were quite enough. [B][insert here Roddy McDowall's nude photo of a very young, preternaturally gorgeous Elizabeth Taylor -- I can't find it.][/B] I still wish they'd find the missing 2 hours, as the exteriors of Rome and Egypt were removed for time (as well as the development of Antony & Cleopatra's relationship, the edits turning their romance into a kissy-slappy soap). But back then, they didn't used to save such material, so it was likely destroyed, those millions of dollars wasted and lost forever. One of Joe Mank's sons asked, 'who wants to see a boring 6-hour movie version of a boring 4-hour movie?' But I do. Someone should have told Daryl Zanuck to allow Mankiewicz to do an alternative full-length cut for TV, where they could make a huge bundle to offset the theatrical losses. But no one apparently thought of that... As it was, the sale to television set a record price anyway. [/QUOTE]

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