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Title: Amazing Performances/Awful Sound
Review: This is an acting tour de force especially the performance of Sin Phillips who is absolutely brilliant. Unfortunately the picture is not very brilliant, nor is the sound, which is awful. I had to pump the sound level on the TV to the top level and turn on the stereo speakers and I still couldn't hear what they were saying at times. However, performances like these come along very rarely, especially today. I doubt you will see this kind of greatness on American TV again. Luckily they restored the original opening with the African dance. It had been cut for US audiences when originally presented in prudish American. I do wonder though if the scene where Claudius opens the door on Drucilla, after Caligula had eaten her baby, showed the horror of what he had just done. It seems to me that there is an abrupt cut in the scene as if we were meant to look inside the door but a censor decided we shouldn't see what was there. That has always bothered me!
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