Fourteen years after they released a restored version “presented” by Martin Scorsese, the Brothers Weinstein are finally bringing “El Cid” out on DVD Tuesday and I have a review in today’s Post. I first saw this remarkable film, with its great Miklos Rozsa score and unforgettable climax, on its original release in 1961 or 1962, after it had finished its roadshow release at the old Warner (aka the Cinerama) in Manhattan and, in the custom of the day, had moved (probably in a cut version) onto the many neighborhood theaters that still operated in New York City’s outer boroughs. “El Cid” was truly impressive even at the tiny Ditmars Theater abutting the elevated line in Astoria, which long ago became a post office after a pre-cinema incarnation as a bar where my 92-year-old Aunt Rose had her wedding reception in 1935. She took me to see “Vertigo” there fifty years ago.

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