included Malibu, California, and hill areas around Los Angeles. Release, reception and legacy The bulk of screenings were for ethnic Armenian audiences, and commercial theaters did not air it. David Welky, author of "Global Hollywood Versus National Pride: The Battle to Film The Forty Days of Musa Dagh," wrote that not very many film critics watched the film, and the few that did "savaged" it. Welky stated that Forty Days of Musa Dagh was "a slapped-together farce that lacked cohesiveness" and that it "never had a chance of meeting the grand expectations MGM once had for [the concept]." According to a review by Variety, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh was "a dreary little film that does no justice to its weighty subject." Reidel wrote that "the end result was not a real film, not even a B-picture." George S. Harris, author of "Cementing Turkish-American Relations: The Ambassadorship of (Mehmet) Münir Ertegün (1934-1944)", stated that the lack of exposure of the film meant that Turkey-United States relations would remain unharmed. References Further reading Minasian, Edward. "The Forty Years of Musa Dagh: The Film That Was Denied." Journal of Armenian Studies, National Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR). Volume III, Numbers 1 & 2: 1986-1987 Identity and Assimilation: The Armenian Experience in America. Profile. External links Profile at Turner Classic Movies 1982 films Armenian genocide films