Too Much Johnson

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.

From Orson Welles’ long-lost silent film, meant to accompany his never-produced Mercury Theatre stage version of the William Gillette play, Joseph Cotten and Edgar Barrier, with no stunt-doubles, chasing over now-demolished rooftops of lower Manhattan, in Too Much Johnson, 1938.