With a mug of tea and his tears wiped up, we re sat him with his cringing date and the movie rolled on.and on and on. He woke up and started crying: "A"Aww don't show that bit again" he protested, so we didn't, we re started from just after. There he was, head first through the wall, slumped in collapse, with frantic audience members trying to pull him, legs first, from the hole. The building shook and we ran to see what happened. followed immediately by (only) one huge athletic man staggering from his seat in a state of distress, dizzy from what he had seen, lumbering Frankenstein monster-style across the aisle, and ploughed headfirst through the plaster wall on the stairway to the foyer. then shocked silence during a bathtub abortion scene. My main memory is from a suburban cinema in Sydney.400 person sized crowd of couples. I am surprised that is was considered a flop in the USA when a big hit elsewhere. TV really corralled this type of book/drama on film with DYNASTY and KNOTTS LANDING etc. I guess it also caused the rise of the miniseries movie potboiler drama that paved the way for THE BETSY, THE Greek TYCOON and many other 2hr plus glossy romantic efforts. well for us fellers, it was a bit raunchy showing off Gallic nubile sexiness among the ruins of Paris in WW2. it ran for months gathering momentum among shop assistants and daytime single women ticket-buyers as a much whispered about 'must see'. What a success this film was in Australia in 1977.
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