Sidney Lumet says in his autobiography that the long-time MGM chief editor Margaret Booth came to UK to supervise the editing of the movie. What she saw in the screening room ran two hours and two minutes, and she initially insisted that the film did not run over two hours. Lumet then told her that if he removed two minutes, it would harm the picture. But he worked the best he could to obey to Margaret's orders, though he could definitely not remove the two minutes asked. The editor-in-chief came back the next morning and whilst the two minutes were still not removed but only a few seconds, she told Lumet it was a good movie and that he could keep it as it was. But the morning after, she suddenly came back on her decision because she thought Lumet and his assistant had laughed at her. Then she almost cried, weeping about the new MGM executives who had nothing to do with the former ones, those from the old thirties and forties eras. Lumet said that this great chief editor, who worked with Irving Thalberg very closely, was through with the system. At this time Margaret Booth was already 64.

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