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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, it was made three years before Welles directed Citizen Kane, but it was never publicly screened.
Aug 30, 2014 · Too Much Johnson: Directed by Orson Welles. With Joseph Cotten, Virginia Nicolson, Edgar Barrier, Arlene Francis. A woman has two lovers. When one man finds out about the other, he acts as a villain and chases after the protagonist.
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Apr 16, 2015 · Between those modest items the 23-year-old prodigy turned to a more ambitious project: Too Much Johnson, a 1938 farce based on portions of an 1891 play by William Gillette, a prominent American dramatist and actor.
A lawyer (Joseph Cotten) having an affair with a married woman is discovered by her husband, who does not actually see him, but obtains a torn photo of the top half of the lawyer's face. The husband chases the lawyer across the rooftops and the streets of New York.
Oct 9, 2013 · The scenes Welles filmed in New York in 1938 were to be shown as part of a Mercury Theatre production of the 1894 play Too Much Johnson. It’s an elegant solution: replacing pages of expository dialogue with silent prologues, shot slapstick-style to suit the on-stage farce and add a wash of nostalgic charm.
Synopsis. This film was not intended to stand by itself, but was designed as the cinematic aspect of Welles’ 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 who is expecting the arrival of a ...
A film adaptation of William Gillette's play by Orson Welles, starring Joseph Cotten, Virginia Nicolson and Edgar Barrier. See the full list of cast and crew members, production details and trivia on IMDb.
