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The film was not intended to stand by itself, but was designed as the cinematic aspect of Welles’s Mercury Theatre stage presentation of William Gillette’s 1894 comedy about a New York playboy who flees from the violent husband of his mistress and borrows the identity of a plantation owner in Cuba.
Too Much Johnson (1938) -- (Movie Clip) To Clairette The opening, which should be viewed knowing the film was never finished, nor meant as a narrative, first with Virginia Nicolson (the director’s wife), Guy Kingsley Poynter and Eustace Wyatt, then Arlene Francis with Joseph Cotten, from Orson Welles’ long-lost silent Too Much Johnson, 1938.
Encore: Too Much Johnson. By Geoffrey O’Brien in the January-February 2014 Issue. It was already exciting to learn that Too Much Johnson —the filmed prologues, designed to form part of the Mercury Theatre’s 1938 revival of William Gillette’s antique farce, that supposedly perished in a fire at Orson Welles’s villa in Spain—had been ...
Too Much Johnson 1938 40m Comedy List Reviews 58% Audience Score Fewer than 50 Ratings When a man finds out his lover is seeing another man, he acts like a villain and chases him down.
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Too Much Johnson is a 1938 American silent comedy film written and directed by Orson Welles. An unfinished film component of a stage production, the film was made three years before Welles directed Citizen Kane, but it was never publicly screened.
Peter Labuza 1. Watched the workprint version, which often features alternate takes and untrimmed scenes, though the thing wasn't meant to be watched as a cohesive narrative anyways. What strikes me about Welles's approach to slapstick comedy is his bold use of deep focus to create three dimensions, as well as exploit this for comedic purposes.
The work print was downloaded from here: https://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/too-much-johnson-work-printScott Simmon's earlier cu...
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