Difference between 79 and 89 min versions?
I've seen what might be the 79 minute version (18 fps). In the end it abruptly cuts with a man bursting out of the courtroom. Is this how the shorter version "ends"? Is it missing an extra 10 minutes?
The version I watched was 89 min and ended like this:
After the man bursts out of the courtroom, he runs out to a group of photographers standing outside and says "...the notorious Larita Filton!" and the photographers get in position. Soon Lorita comes out "poses" in front of the photographers and says "Shoot! There's nothing left to kill." The end.
Screenshots:
http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/7243/vlcsnap359403.png
http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/401/vlcsnap359644.png
http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/9452/vlcsnap359815.png
That entire bit was 50 sec long.
As there is no definite playback speed for silent movies it is possible your version is only missing that scene and is played at a different speed from mine. Or it may be missing some other scenes too as no complete print of this movie exists today and some scenes only remain as still photographs.
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Thanks for the info.
I don't think there is an 89-min version of "Easy Virtue," given the speed of the 79-min version I saw (choppy at moments, but generally fluid and not slow) and the fact only one scene was missing from the YouTube "ScreenGems" version I saw from Germany, which was a definitive shot of the artist shooting himself. It seems to me the film was intact in all other respects.
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