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I think that there did not necessarily have to be an exact template in his earlier work. Orson, like most Directors who have been Actors, knew chops when he saw them: "If he could do all that - he could do this." Add that to being physically in the right zone, and you're done! Merriest, - ...

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Folks - Came across this in researching Orson's 1938 pinch-hit for Lionel... https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/126869166_3919995278024391_7414902080123370891_o.jpg?_nc_cat=111&ccb=2&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=_9ZRgfZ1QHUAX9r-O0S&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-1.xx&oh=979610adfc1fa5...

The enthusiastic author describes him as America’s most famously exacting director . I can think of a few other pretenders to that title but all of them are dead. In their own individual OCD ways: Von Stroheim. Ford. Hitchcock. Kubrick. Cimino. (That being said, my late pal Arthur Anderson did call...

Yeah, Mank was the genius and Welles was the hitchhiker-opportunist. My tuchis. At some point though, ala comix fandom's "Stan Lee Vs. Jack Kirby" nonsense, these pissing matches get silly. There seems plenty of documented proof for both healthy-egoed men to have had threads of both geniu...

Interesting that just in the recent days, a President (Trump) begged a Media Mogul (Murdoch) to help him - and the Mogul told him to take a hike...

"We know a remote farm in Lincolnshire, where Mrs. Buckley lives. Every July, peas grow there.”

I don't usually even think about the Oscars until the critics awards and 10 best lists start rolling in, but if Mank gets Oscar attention, that would be nice. I'm afraid next year's Oscars might be dominated by streaming contenders as well. Chief, why afraid? Venue is just venue; a motion picture i...

The initial post didn't claim it was unprecedented, just topical. Martyn, I was responding to the first line of the linked article. Which reads: "The US election has provided the world with one of the most unprecedented events as neither Joe Biden or Donald Trump have yet to be declared the wi...

...I am SO tried of historically ignorant folks bellowing, "UNPRECEDENTED!" though...

This election? Um, ever hear of the one in 1824, or maybe 1876?

This pandemic? Ah, 1918, anyone?

What Mark Twain called, "The Damned Human Race" are such navel-gazers.

- Craig

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Le Chiffre wrote:EDIT: Just found one in an online list that fits well: DRACULA, by Bram Stoker which Welles used as the basis for his first radio program for "The Mercury Theater on the Air."

You betchum, Red Ryder!

- Craig

(Aka next week, "Dr. Abraham Van Helsing")

And that film was neither Unique, nor Groundbreaking!

Large-screen Film had been around since very early film history.

- Craig