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From: cberry@muddcs.UUCP (Craig Berry)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: Longest Movies
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Date: Mon, 25-Mar-85 16:14:49 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 25 16:14:49 1985
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In article <151@iwu1b.UUCP> renrut@iwu1b.UUCP (turner) writes:

>One of the longest movies ever made was
>
>	"Gone with the Wind" --- 222 minutes
>
>If you know of a longer one, submit your guess to net.movies;
>each guess should include:
>title, running time ( original and released ), and your source.

 How about "Greed"?  I don't have all of the data on it handy, but it was
made around 1915(?).  The movie was based on the novel _McTeague_ by Frank
Norris, a popular turn-of-the-century author (incidentally, the book is
quite good and still in print).  As I recall, the original running length
was on the order of fifteen hours (!).  Since then, some of the film has
been lost, but a version still exists which runs about nine hours.
 It has been suggested that this movie was bankrolled by the American
Popcorn Marketing Board :-).

                                Craig Berry

"Specialization is for insects." - Robert Heinlein
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