This article is based on a piece by Jean-Pierre Berthome that appeared in French in The Unknown Orson Welles, the wonderful book edited by Stefan Drossler of the Filmmuseum Munchen. Special thanks to Francois Thomas, who graciously translated key portions of the text for me. All the sections below in bold type are taken from … Continue reading Orson Welles’s screenplay for Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death”