Irishman wrote:

I think that Robert Wise should have fired his editor! Too many indulgent shots, and I don't know, it may have been Wise's call to edit it that way...
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You forget that they were working to an impossible deadline. Wise took the film canisters
on the flight with him to the premiere at the Smithsonian.
You don't cut the expensive stuff out until
after you get a chance to preview it.