Editing Romeo and Juliet (1968 film) (section)

===Editing===
During post-production, several scenes were trimmed or cut. Act 5, Scene 3, in which Romeo fights and eventually kills Paris outside Juliet's crypt, was filmed but deleted from the final print.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Jackson|first=Russell|title=Shakespeare Films in the Making: Vision, Production and Reception|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|year=2007|isbn=978-0521815475|location=Cambridge, England|pages=213}}</ref> According to [[Leonard Whiting]] and [[Roberto Bisacco]], Zeffirelli cut the scene because he felt it unnecessarily made Romeo less sympathetic.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Loney|first=Glenn|title=Staging Shakespeare – Seminars on Production Problems|publisher=Garland Press|year=1990|location=New York City|isbn=978-0824066130}}</ref>

The final budgeted cost for the film was {{US$|850000|1968}}.<ref name="walker"/>