Yet ... They Did!
suggesting that Hollywood always represented a larger force than any Murican innate-Dumbth, I wot.
(Look what Orson Welles had to go through to keep The Magnificent Ambersons unBowdlerized.)
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Paramount Pictures, the American partner brought in toward the end of the shoot, took control of the film and made drastic excisions, arguing that LangÂs cut was too complicated and unwieldy for American audiences to understand.
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Give a Heads Up, whoever notices the DVD release date!