The director's cut is 74 minutes long, as reported by the magazine 'Variety' at the premiere. The length of 1776 meters, as reported in imdb (June 2009), which confers with the 65 minutes' running time of most extant copies, that entirely cut out the artist
Norma Shearer, and reduced others to the point of not being discernible, like
Eddie Cantor and
Will Rogers.