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MGM were very leery about it. I mean, because this is in a box set with a whole bunch of other MGM horror films of the period, the viewers will be able to notice that all of them have been messed around in pre-production and post-production. They've changed directors, they've cut footage, they've dropped footage, they've previewed it. This was previewed at 80 minutes and released at 60. And I think it basically boils down to...
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way of selling the film at that time. And there are snips of scenes in that trailer which you don't see in the finished film. I think we have a sense that when they named the date of this film as 1934, it obviously sat on the shelf for a while before it was released, while they were maybe fiddling around with it. It was previewed at 80 minutes, released at 60. And here's some prime lurking. And here's where...
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