Anybody here who knows what the difference is between the 144 min roadshow version and the usual 129 min version? Is it only additional music? I only found out that it has an overture and exit music and intermission music.
While I consider this a mess plotwise, contains 2.5 hours worth of twist and turns sans momentum or logic - a lot of meandering. DitS is very worth watching just for the technicolor/cinematography, the orange, studio-lit skies and the sets (especially the cantina in the movie's opening moments). While it's undeniably flawed, it's an important western.
The only thing important about this movie is that it is the first movie Martin Scorsese ever saw
I don't know if it's the first but the fact he reviewed/mentioned it in his documentary did do it a big favor.
I believe he says it is the first movie he remembers seeing
Also called Lust in the Dust, this is a lurid, sexy, campy, politically incorrect ham and cheese sandwich. I love it. Gregory Peck for once is really sexy and thankfully not in "noble mode". He's so much better for it.
This movie is terrible.
Peck...never once convinces as a sexual dynamo.