[78-L] Holiday torture (tenuous 78 connection, sorry)

[Julian Vein]

On 27/12/11 19:06, Don Cox wrote:
> On 26/12/2011, David Lennick wrote:
>
>> I'm still getting even with my wife for choosing "Going My Way" to
>> watch the other night, instead of "Holiday Inn" (both are on the same
>> dvd). Somebody really should have cut 30 minutes from that thing (Rise
>> Stevens was definitely in the wrong movie, for starters).
>>
> I think most films are about 30 minutes too long, and should have been
> shortened at the script stage. 70 minutes should be plenty to tell a
> story - "Bambi" is 72 mins and "Dumbo" is 64: plenty happens in both.
>
> There are of course a few long films that are masterpieces and fully
> justify their length, but they art the exceptions.
>
> Regards
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I find that with film westerns, which I hardly ever watch, but able to 
handle TV westerns like "Rawhide" and "Gunsmoke", which last under an hour.

      Julian Vein