MOVIES - May 30, 1989

Francis Ford Coppola is bringing the film epic “Napoleon” out of exile. Coppola will present the 4 1/2-hour movie at New York’s Radio City Music Hall June 20-25 and it will be accompanied by the American Symphony Orchestra with Coppola’s father, Carmine, conducting. The ground-breaking Abel Gance film was released in 1927 and the version now being shown was assembled by film historian Kevin Brownlow and Robert Harris from destroyed prints and new footage. During its four separate engagements in 1981 and 1982, “Napoleon” broke all Radio City box office records with more than 100,000 people attending.