When Warren Beatty and Arthur Penn showed the finished movie to Jack L. Warner, he called it "the longest two hours and ten minutes I ever spent." A few weeks later, Warner sold his share in the studio to Seven Arts Productions for almost $200 million, but the new management was no more interested in selling the film. They decided to premiere it at a Texas drive-in, then dump it into second-string theaters. Even when the film had a triumphant preview for industry insiders at the Directors Guild, they refused to change their plans. Finally, Beatty convinced them to premiere the film at the Montreal Film Festival, where the stars got 14 curtain calls and a standing ovation. Still, studio management stuck to their original distribution plan.

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