 Due to the subtitles at the beginning of the film many theater  patrons began complaining, believing that they had unknowingly paid  to see a foreign film. In order to alleviate that, special posters  were quickly printed up and posted in the theater lobby which stated  the following. "YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE. To dramatize the diverse  backgrounds of the principal characters in "Sorcerer", two of the  opening sequences were filmed in the appropriate foreign languages 