Too Much Johnson (1938)

19381h 07mdir. Orson WellesUnited Statescomedy filmsilent film

With Joseph Cotten, Mary Wickes, Arlene Francis, Orson Welles, John Houseman, Edgar Barrier, Ruth Ford, Eustace Wyatt

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.

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