Why is there such a difference between TCM's Print and the alternate Running Time? Is it just projection speed? In that case I would get it. But tell me, is the 89 minute version just a typo, the totally silent versions projection speed or is it a longer version with more footage. Thank you for Looking!
shareI think both, that is the projection speed plus the shots are longer almost in every scene. I just came from Paris where I watched at the French Cinémathèque "The kiss" (without musical score. I timed it and it came around to one hour and sixteen minutes. I noticed that the shots are longer (for example the famous close up of Garbo in front of the mirror, as well as the subsequent shots of her and Nagel in the garden during the party, the fight scene where her husband gets killed etc. It is a shame that Warner Bros did not have the idea of properly restoring this magnificent film to its original length with a musical score worthy of it (let us say by Carl Davis).
shareThank you very much for your information, if only Louis Jourdan would respond to me!
Do you have any info on John Gilbert's Bardeleys the Magnificent that they have found in Europe?