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Subject: Favorite War/Military # 3_Not My Rip_[01/47] - "Battle of the Bulge (1965).nfo" yEnc (0/1)
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Thanks to the Original Poster!
As per IMDb (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058947/alternateversions?tab=cz&ref_=tt_trv_alt): "The film was originally screened at about 170 minutes. When it was initially released on North American home video in the 1980s, it was trimmed to a mere 141 minutes....The 1990 video and subsequent home video and laserdisc releases run 156 minutes (in order to market the film on a T-160 videotape) and restore the original Overture, Intermission and Exit Music. Four key scenes are still missing....
The Warner Brothers DVD released on 3 May 2005, restores all of the missing scenes as well as a fifth scene featuring James MacArthur and George Montgomery. The disc runs only a few seconds short of 170 minutes. The film is also presented in the correct 2.75:1 aspect ratio, not the 2.20:1 ratio which TV and Laserdisc versions were framed at."
That's the release I believe this copy to be. IMBb starts by saying "The original 1965 theatrical release in the UK ran 212 minutes 1 second." I believe, for all practical purposes, that version is gone. But given that there are several other versions out there, I believe this version is the next best thing.
Maybe because of the mp4 format, but I think this copy is a lot better than you'd expect from an 825 MB copy.
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