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Just viewed the Imprint Blu-ray release of Waterloo and the movie is good but no War & Peace the director made a few years before it. Have to say Orson is out of place as King Louis XVIII but it's a brief appearance. The Blu-ray looks great with a clean looking print of the film.

Thanks atcolomb. From imdb's Waterloo trivia page (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066549/trivia):

The picture was a commercial failure at the theatrical box office in 1970. Producer Dino De Laurentiis blamed the film's poor performance on the picture's lack of stars.

Richard Burton was sought to play Napoléon Bonaparte which in the end was cast with Rod Steiger.

Contrary to the popular misconception, its poor performance at the US box office was not the reason that MGM cancelled their Stanley Kubrick Napoleon project. MGM and Kubrick announced that they had parted company amicably in January 1969, four months before this film went into production.