Shot in 1938 Too Much Johnson was Welles’ first feature the film that helped him hone his craft and led him to create to the masterpiece that is Citizen Kane. The footage was presumed destroyed in a fire in Welles’ home in 1971 but was recently rediscovered in Italy and the restored 66 mins version makes its UK DVD debut. Too Much Johnson is an elaborate 1890s farce of mistaken identity. Cuckolded husband Dathis (Edgar Barrier) is on the tale of a man named Billings (Joseph Cotten) who has been having an affair with Dathis’s wife (Arlene Francis). Billings flees... by ship to Cuba where now also hiding from his own wife (Ruth Ford) and mother-in-law (Mary) he adopts the identity of a plantation owner named Johnson who is expecting a mail-order bride. Orson Welles plays a Keystone Kop. [show more]
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Orson Welles writes, directs and stars in this silent comedy adaptation, his first professional feature. After discovering his wife Clairette (Arlene Francis) has been unfaithful to him Leon Dathis (Edgar Barrier) flees aboard a ship to Cuba in pursuit of her lover Augustus Billings (Joseph Cotten). But when both parties arrive at their destination, Billings, in order to hide from his own wife (Ruth Ford) and mother-in-law (Mary Wickes), adopts the identity of a plantation owner named Johnson.
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