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John Ford Film Festival Got me a pile of John Ford DVDs - here are my reviews - before I forget - Basically I find that Ford just keeps getting better as he goes along - I like his stuff starting from the late 40s on, the stories get deeper, the camera work is wonderfully stylized yet always very ec...

At this point, one can only speculate, but it is highly probable. Sadly, the gipper's ability to camouflage his voice is rather perfunctory. Not a good thing for a potential spy. I think I saw a Jimmy Stewart, WML video on Youtube - I wonder if it can provide insight into McBride's comments on Frank...

How come that lady in the second chair always makes the right guess? She's unstoppable. It's sort of monotonous. Coincidently, Reagan is mentioned in the McBride interview, where he alledgedly attempted to infiltrate the Communist Party... around the same time of his WML appearance ...

No, I'm afraid not - how did this become about Ronald Reagan?

Cool Hitch thing - he's always stealing Orson's ideas ;-) - But to be fair to Welles, he was first in line in the guessing order - which is tough - the first person sets it up, then it's easy for that lady to nail it, it's even easier being the mystery guest - Welles probably coud have disguised his...

Hey, that's right, now that you mention it, I do recall reading somewhere that Welles was up for that part - a good fit, I think - but that gives me images of Akim Tamiroff as Tattoo for some reason... I recently read that Welles was apparently up for the Spencer Tracy role in John Ford's The Last H...

Maybe Fantasy Island would have been more acceptable to him. I hope he never appeared on Hollywood Squares.

I scored me Sam Peckinpah's 'Major Dundee' - at the supermarket - with Charlton Heston - it was nicely preserved because the rack is just in front of the frozen pizza section - Ironically, this movie is very similar to the previous one I got, 'Hallelujah Trail' (at the pharmacy). Both feature the US...

There's some sort of monument in Morocco, I guess because of Othello. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjGTKCczH5c Great romances doc - Welles - Hayworth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toeqbKk3_YY Welles dishes on modern art - (the whole thing is available on another post) http://www.youtube.com/watch...

from http://www.wellesnet.com/?p=443 Wellesnet experts rate their Ten favorite films by ORSON WELLES March 7th, 2009 Lawrence French Posted in Criticism & Research | Comments Off Thanks to Lance Morrison for tallying up all the votes so far of Wellesnet members ongoing ranking of their favorite ...

Vienna
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kz39VdxoQc

Dinah Shore show
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=V421bF698sA

Portrait of Gina is back
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=C7R5CBG5rJM

Probably just a publisher's typo. I doubt that it reflects on the book itself. I think any book that deals with relatively unexplored facets of the Wellesian corpus is of interest. Just the amount of unfilmed film scripts he left behind is staggering. I think one advantage of a postmodernist perspec...

Welles in 13 Chairs
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Om55JXafg7Q

Welles obit on ET
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=WCqLDRQh3BA

Nice article on Leone -

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_h ... _n29395781