Too Much Johnson (2013)
Too Much Johnson (2013)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Joseph Cotten
Augustus Billings
Virginia Nicholson
Lenore Faddish
Arlene Francis
Mrs. Dathis
Virginia Nicolson
Lenore Faddish
Mary Wickes
Mrs. Battison
Orson Welles
Keystone Kop / Director / Screenplay / Producer / Editor
John Houseman
Duelist / Producer
Judy Holliday
(uncredited)
Edgar Barrier
Leon Dathis
Ruth Ford
Mrs. Billings
Eustace Wyatt
Francis Faddish
Guy Kingsley Poynter
Henry MacIntosh
George Duthie
Purser
Marc Blitzstein
Extra
Herbert Drake
Keystone Kop
Erskine Sanford
Frederick
Howard Smith
Joseph Johnson
Richard Wilson
Cabin boy / Associate Producer / Editor / Unit Production Manager
William Gillette
Theatre Play
Paul Dunbar
Director of Photography
Harry Dunham
Director of Photography
William Alland
Editor
James Morcom
Production Design
Leo Van Witsen
Costume Design
John Berry
Co-Producer / Assistant Director
Augusta Weissberger
Media.
Details.
Release DateOctober 9, 2013
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 6m
Filming LocationsNew York City, United States
Genres
Wiki.
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. It was shot to be integrated into Welles's Mercury Theatre stage presentation of William Gillette's 1894 comedy, but the film sequences could not be shown due to the absence of projection facilities at the venue, the Stony Creek Theatre in Connecticut. The resulting plot confusion reportedly contributed to the stage production's failure.
The film was believed to be lost, but in 2008 a print was discovered in a warehouse in Pordenone, Italy. The film premiered on October 9, 2013, at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival. In 2014, the work print and a modern edit of the film were made available online by the National Film Preservation Foundation.Two previous films had been made of this play, a short film in 1900 and a feature-length Paramount film in 1919 starring Lois Wilson and Bryant Washburn. Both of these films are now lost.