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I will not begin to comment on the well-documented cinematic achievements within this film, but this movie (like all of Leone's for that matter) is hard for me to watch. The amount of looping of dialogue is a major distraction... and it's not an outgrowth of Italian/English translation. Just count how often the lines "spoken" during a scene were obviously dubbed in a booth later. Were there planes constantly flying overhead during principal filming ruining the audio takes? Maybe I'm picky, but when the video and audio are out of synch, it detracts from my ability to focus on the scene.

And you thought the dialogue and acting went over the top in "Airplane," huh? Thank you TCM for running this the other day. I had never seen it before, but wait a minute, sure I had... dozens of times. That's what made the ZH viewing such a hoot. ZAZ did such a fine job colorizing "Zero Hour!" I had the whole script memorized. If you have grown slightly weary from repeated "Airplane" yukfests, find a copy of its propellorized progenitor and enjoy the comedy anew. So true is the original to its parody (note the deliberate juxtaposition) I half expected Geoffrey Toone's (Dr. Baird) nose to grow as he attempted to calm the passengers. All that was missing was June Cleaver's "Jive Talkin'!"