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11-22-08, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Douglas R

There's no problem with that because the film was originally shown with an intermission and the audience would have had a 10 minute break between parts 1 and 2. Like many films of similar length, the film was never intended to be shown without a break.

No evidence exists that this film ever had an intermission. Miklos Rozsa certainly never wrote Intermission or Entr'acte music and the film would have to be roughly divided just before the burning of Rome, which doesn't make sense.