Gene Siskel (may he rest in peace) once was assigned to review some crapfest whose title I forget, and apparently whoever was running the projector in the screening room was missing one reel, a situation not discovered until the premature end of the picture. The aforementioned whoever, presumably connected to the film’s distributor, was profusely apologetic, and he hoped that this would not affect Mr Siskel’s judgment of the film.

Said Gene: “If the missing reel turned out to contain the lost footage from The Magnificent Ambersons, this would still suck.”