In the film""s preposterous conclusion on his Chinese junk, as the ""general died at dawn,"" his devoted soldiers were ordered o execute the whites and Mr.[A reel is approximately ten to twelve minutes in length.] Although Von Stroheim cut the film down to about 24 reels (a four-hour version), Stroheim""s own director/friend Rex Ingram cut the film further to between 15 and 18 reels (a three-hour version).THE ITALIAN CHICKEN," with a cartoonish picture of Creed grabbing and choking a Rocky-headed chicken...We had a ranch.It wasn""t a very big one.No plumbing.A little thing out back.Poor Jeremiah, he""ll never know how close he came to twenty million barrels of oil.She complains, after becoming half-drunk on bourbon, hat nobody calls her ""Jessie"" anymore.[The actress"" name is Jessie Royce Landis!] After asking that the men call her "Jessie," she also forthrightly promotes the availability of her daughter (improperly educated and made phony at a "finishing school" in her opinion) for ""Mr.In the auto graveyard as they dug a grave, Dr.Gordon and Thompson sensed a presence - as radios, headlights, wheels, fan blades, windshield wipers and horns of junker cars came to life.