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Montauk6

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3. Yah, I think it was Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, and D(emon).W. Griffith

Reply to EuterpeThelo (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 20, 2026, 02:43 PM

5 hrs ago

I remember reading about it in "Final Cut" by Steven Bach who detailed the rise and fall of United Artists thanks to the making of Michael Cimino's "Heaven's Gate" (a CRIMINALLY underrated masterpiece, IMHO).

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