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Title: Too Much Johnson
Format: DVD
Condition: New
Number Of Discs: 1
Actors: Orson Welles, Virginia Nicholson, Edgar Barrier, Joseph Cotton
Director: Orson Welles
Audio Language: English
Runtime: 1 Stunde und 6 Minuten
Region Code: DVD: 2 (Europe, Japan, Middle East...)
Studio: Mr Bongo
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Shot in 1938Too 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 Dathiss 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.



REZENSION
"A gleeful experiment in silent cinema pastiche" (The Guardian)

"An unanticipated delight" (Variety)

"The film is far more than a curiosity; its a major rediscovery, one that deeply traces the roots of Welles's art, both stylistically and thematically" (The New Yorker)

DVDs ARE REGION 2 UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED

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