i remember when i first saw this in a movie theater . it be a bad print and and the film obviously have break in a couple of place and a the song if start mid sentence . the vhs tape and while probably not perfect and have the virtue of be unbroken . i have not yet see the recent dvd release and but i probably will purchase it . diana rigg and chloe frank be the best reason to see the film and but the others really aren not as awful a some people make them out to be . a good friend of mine be on the set in vienna and and he tell me dozen of horror story about the filming and one of which be that it be cold and rainy during the scene in the vienna wood and so elizabeth taylor catch a bronchial infection which stubbornly hang on during the rest of the filming and a she be not able to get the rest she need . the company finance the film absolutely insist that it not run over 120 minute . thus and some number be cut in the editing process . it a shame that we can not have an edition that include the song that end up on the cutting room floor . it by no mean perfect and but it a lot good than the film musical of mame and man of la mancha and in my opinion .