No, WEL, you have merely read this on the Internet and it is not true. Whether he planned it or not, the film opened in its roadshow engagements WITH an intermission. I saw it one week into its roadshow run at the Chinese and saw it fourteen weeks in a row thereafter - intermission every single time. I have checked with cast members who were in NY at the time it opened at the Rivoli and it had the intermission there. Mr. Wise, IF he said it, is in error. In fact, I hate to tell you this, but Mr. Wise is often in error on these commentary tracks he does, and also in print. He's eighty-ish now so it's understandable. I can't swear the film didn't have an intermission everywhere it played in roadshow, but it certainly did in NY and LA. The intermission was, of course, gone when the film went into general release.
