DVD : "Fall of the Roman Empire" plus lost footage

[Alan Huffines]

It was not listed anywhere that I could find on the DVD, but it is the same version I have had for years on a regrion free DVD. I suspect the 170-something minutes.

I will check it out in my hootch in a while. Bedtime here in Baghdad.

[Alan Huffines]

Here is what the three disk Miriam Collections' THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE Limited Collector's Edition contains:

Disc One
Feature Commentary with Bill Bronston (son of producer Samuel Bronston) and Mel Martin (biographer of Samuel Bronston)
Rome in Madrid: 1964 Promotional Film
Original Theatrical Trailer
Filmographies
Still Galleries

Disc Two
The Rise and Fall of an Epic Production: The Making of the Film
The Rise and Fall of an Empire: An Historical Look at the Real Roman Empire
Hollywood vs. History: An Historical Analysis
Dimitri Tiompkin: Scoring the Roman Empire

Disk Three
A Collection of Historic Documentaries About Ancient Rome, All Shot on the Film's Sets

Gift Set
Reproduction of Original 1964 Souvenir Program
Six Color Production Stills
Bonus Disk (Disk Three)

I cannot find an actual time stamp anywhere in the packaging or the disks. If the missing half-hour were included the packaging would reflect that.

[Alan Huffines]

I saw FOTRE when it opened in Dallas in '65. A few months later I watched it again and noticed that several scenes I had seen on first viewing had been excised. The one that sticks in my mind was Commodus's drunken, rambling diatribe early in the film about his "trilemma" concerning the nature of the gods.

This is a great example of a now missing scene. In the current version, Commodus ends with his discussion of "dilemma" and the very next scene is him with a barbarian female. We don't know where she came from or anything. It is a shame as all the trilemma stuff relates to the later scenes where Commodus hears the gods laughing. What a great movie it was.

[john m roberts]

Alan:
Just saw your locale. Good luck and do us proud.
John Roberts
US Army '67-'70

[john m roberts]

I forgot to mention:
Keep your head down and don't volunteer for anything.
John

[Alan Huffines]

I appreciate the well wishes and thank you for your service.