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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.
Mar 12, 2021 · Orson Welles’ long-believed lost footage shot for the 1938 stage comedy Too Much Johnson was preserved by the George Eastman Museum and first shown to the delight of cineastes at an Italian film festival in 2013.
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.
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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.
