Some, like ICE STATION ZEBRA, KHARTOUM, or THE HALLELUJAH TRAIL, should never have been Cinerama roadshows. Careful editing, and they would have been effective normal-length movies.
I continue to believe that any film that's over 150 minutes long should have an intermission. That leaves out KHARTOUM, which at 134 minutes is one of the shortest films with an intermission. (I don't count all those 1950s 3-D films that needed an intermission for a projector reload.)
I still don't understand why these long films today don't have intermissions. People keep throwing out the fiction that eliminating an intermission allows for an extra showing per day. Nonsense. Subtracting a 15-minute intermission from four showings is not going to allow time for another 150 minute show.
Some, like ICE STATION ZEBRA, KHARTOUM, or THE HALLELUJAH TRAIL, should never have been Cinerama roadshows. Careful editing, and they would have been effective normal-length movies.
I continue to believe that any film that's over 150 minutes long should have an intermission. That leaves out KHARTOUM, which at 134 minutes is one of the shortest films with an intermission. (I don't count all those 1950s 3-D films that needed an intermission for a projector reload.)
I still don't understand why these long films today don't have intermissions. People keep throwing out the fiction that eliminating an intermission allows for an extra showing per day. Nonsense. Subtracting a 15-minute intermission from four showings is not going to allow time for another 150 minute show.
Especially when most plexes these day run the same film in multiple theaters to get bums thru the door. I'm suprized that intermissions haven't made a come back if only to allow the theaters to sell more from the candy bar..
If I'm not mistaken, this film has a theme which had numerous cover versions done of it, including a delightful one by jazz guitarist Grant Green on his album Sunday Mornin'.