cutting and asked that his credit "A Robert Wise Film" be  removed. William Reynolds, the films original editor, was hired to  cut down the film based on instructions from Richard Zanuck. The  cuts were a bad idea but they were very adeptly done. They hired the  same artist who did the poster for "Sound Of Music" and every  attempt was made to make audiences think this 120 minute version was  a similar film. The original title was tucked into a corner of all  the ads, so audiences were not fooled and this desperate effort only  convinced people who hadnt seen the original that it really was a  bad film. By the time it debuted on American television, the  original title was restored, but the picture was still cut. At  almost the same time, it debuted on TV in England, but in the full  original version, missing only the overture and entracte.