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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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- Comedy
- Orson Welles
- 2014-08-30
Currently you are able to watch "Too Much Johnson" streaming on The Roku Channel, Tubi TV, Pluto TV for free with ads or buy it as download on Amazon Video. It is also possible to rent "Too Much Johnson" on Amazon Video online.
- Orson Welles
- 14
- John Berry, Augusta Weissberger
- 66 min
Posing as wealthy Cuban plantation owner Joseph Johnson, Augustus Billings is having an affair with married Clairette Dathis. Augustus is able to get away just before Clairette's husband, Leon Dathis, comes home. But Leon finds out about the affair.
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.
Nov 26, 2013 · News of the rediscovery and preservation of sixty-six minutes of footage shot by Orson Welles in 1938 made me both eager and skeptical.
Too Much Johnson (1938) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
