sentences:  By the time the picture was made, this premise had been proven erroneous.The actual audience for this type of film could justify a cost of only a few hundred thousand dollars, if that much – not the substantial budget allocated here, which in turn was exceeded by hundreds of thousands of dollars through the director's excessive preoccupation with his own ideas of "perfection".The picture came out much too long and slow but this director – as part of his unrealistic approach to picture making – refused to make necessary cuts.