1. I just received an email from Criterion and it states that there are missing frames in the original film element.
2. Unfortunately, as I stated earlier, somewhere, something must have gone wrong, because the entire sequence appears without any of these issues that I have described in the review on the Cristaldi Film DVD release distributed by Fox Italia, which was also promoted as a "restoration" at the time when it was released, and which I own.
3. I don't want to speculate, but if I had to guess, I would probably say that the issue is on the master that was struck -- whether it was a long time ago or more recently is anyone's guess.
4. The fact of the matter is this: The frames are not missing. They exist. If they were missing and the issue was inherited, they would not have appeared on the Italian master from Cristaldi Film. Franco Cristaldi produced the film.
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