wanted. It was terribly difficult. Then I worked very hard to dub the dialogue but they kept changing lines to things I couldn't pronounce. So they had to dub in another voice. MGM was impressed by the performance of Boehm and signed him to a contract by putting him in such films as Come Fly with Me and The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm. Post-production The movie spent a considerable amount of time in post-production, which caused its budget to increase further. This, combined with the massive cost overruns of Lady L, which had been postponed, and the remake of Mutiny on the Bounty, as well as the massive failures of Cimarron, Mutiny on the Bounty, and this film, led to the resignation of Sol C. Siegel, MGM's head of production. Reception The film had its world premiere on February 7, 1962 at Loew's Capitol Theatre in Washington, DC. Box office The film grossed $26,000 in its first week in Washington, DC. MGM had become aware by April that the film would not recoup its cost and started to write off its losses. Ultimately the movie earned $1,600,000 in theatrical rentals in the US and Canada and $2,500,000 overseas. When costs of prints and advertising were added, the studio recorded a loss of $5,853,000. Critical It was compared very unfavorably to the famous 1921 version, which had propelled Rudolph Valentino to superstardom. Ford, with many films behind him, was not the unknown that Valentino was when he appeared in the 1921 film. Ford, 46, also had the disadvantage of trying to reprise a role that Valentino had played when he was 26. Critics also considered Ford severely miscast as a Latin lover, who in their minds should have been played by someone much younger. The Los Angeles Times wrote the filmmakers "have pulled it off. The new 'Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse' restores the pleasure there can be in seeing a good story well told on the screen." Minnelli said that the movie received better reviews in Europe and it influenced the look of The Damned, The Conformist and The Garden of the Finzi Continis. Soundtrack André Previn composed the soundtrack score, the main theme of which Alan and Marilyn Bergman later adapted and wrote lyrics for. The resulting song, "More in Love with You", was recorded by Barbra Streisand for The Movie Album (2003). Comic book adaptation Dell