COS Intermission in the UK?

[GulPlum]

Dave Haber wrote:
> I recently learned that movies in the UK routinely have 
> intermissions somewhere in the middle of the movie.

Whoever told you that was having you on. 

We used to have intermissions when all cinema shows consisted of two 
movies (am I the only person here who remembers those days?) but that 
was between the movies, not in the middle of one or the other. 

Exceptionally long movies might get split in half, though - the last 
time I saw a film split in the middle was over two decades ago but 
the film had a running time in excess of 7 hours (I can't remember 
specifically which long movie it was; several candidates spring to 
mind).

> Could someone in the UK please confirm, 1) that there was an
> intermission for COS when you saw it and 2) exactly where it came 
> in the movie (after/before what scene, etc.)