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For 1911, the sets are pretty good and the length of the film would have made it a full-length film--as most movies were significantly shorter.
But then, if they hit their targets, the movie could be a good forty minutes shorter.
Though in fact this one could easy be 30% shorter simply for the riddim sake.
Mitchell is a shorter knockoff of Martin and his job is to sing (rather poorly) and get the girl.
The build-up in the movie, especially the sharp dialogue that is given to the aforementioned William, makes the movie feel even shorter than its hour-plus running time.
This film might have rated higher, say a 5 or a 6, if it had not been at and least 30 minutes shorter.
Give him a much shorter Mexican brother, Jamuga, played by Pedro Armendariz, and a barely 5 foot mother who was only 7 years older than the Duke, Hunlun, played by Agnes Moorehead, and you have The Conqueror, one of the grossest examples of miscasting in Hollywood history.
If you stop the frame where the killer is standing outside the building after doing the deed you can clearly see the man is definitely older and shorter than Sean Connery is and he is not dressed as well, he also is not carrying the cane that Connery was holding earlier in the tavern scene.
It could have been slightly better had it been shorter or if the story had been told at a faster pace.
Just one slight "downer" .... the home video release of this title seems to be shorter than the TV version.
The kind of work executed in His Girl Friday is no shorter than masterful; it should be a frenzy, a fiasco of dialog going and overlapping and reverberating and the pacing clocking in at ridiculous amounts at times (other times, oddly enough, it slows down just enough for us and the actors to catch respective breath).
If BRINGING UP BABY has rapid-fire dialogue and one crazy scene after the other, HIS GIRL Friday goes even faster and is 10 minutes shorter.
The episodes got shorter and used the same ideas over and over again.
Sorbos stunt double for the horse riding scene was so obviously shorter and fatter with a terrible wig on that it made me laugh.
In other words, they obtained shorter hours (i.e., more vacations) in order to keep employment up.
The problem is that total compensation did not go down in proportion to the shorter hours, thus leading to an increase in pay per hour.
Moreover, other forms of borrowing – such as trade finance, which is skewed toward shorter maturities – are not included in these figures.
The maturity of domestic debt is very short, of external debt even shorter.
The huge loss of life in Afghanistan (equal to the United States’ losses in Vietnam, but in a far shorter period of time) already suggested to many that the Kremlin was becoming a danger to itself; the attack on a civilian airliner seemed to confirm that emerging view.
Bondholders can be given a choice between par bonds with a face value equal to their existing bonds but a longer maturity and lower interest rate, and discount bonds with a shorter maturity and higher interest rate but a face value that is a fraction of existing bonds’ face value.
The tax law could worsen these disparities by lowering the incomes of low- and middle-income Americans, many of whom are already living shorter lives, owing partly to the opioid crisis that is ravaging much of the country.
And, with unemployment stubbornly high, many households are saving in order to have additional cash if they should lose their job or be put on shorter hours.
They found that, when isolated from aging cells – whether from human or cow blood, or from genetically engineered sources – free hemoglobin can be rejuvenated, chemically stabilized, and re-infused as a blood “substitute” that can carry oxygen as effectively as red blood cells, but for a much shorter time.
The long-term unemployed will be much slower to be hired as the economy recovers than those who have been out of work for a much shorter period of time.
(Americans think the French, with their shorter working hours and longer summer vacations, already put family ahead of work.)
To be sure, the probability of default might be lower on a trading book because of the shorter time that the assets are held.
That said, one defining feature of the “new oil market” brought about by the advent of shale oil is shorter, more limited oil-price cycles.
Indeed, shale-oil production requires a lower level of sunk costs than conventional oil, and the lag between first investment and production is much shorter.
Is the technological alphabet getting shorter?
Faced with the prospect of monotonous, repetitive work for eight hours a day on an assembly line or flipping hamburgers, they prefer the higher pay and shorter hours that the sex industry offers.
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