Orson Welles’ name was little known by Austin film students in the 1960s until Peter Bogdanovich wrote about the director in Cahiers du Cinema. Cinema 40 organized a retrospective, and were surprised by this film, which is infamous for being taken away from Welles by RKO and re-edited, but maintains many of Welles’ brilliant ideas.

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“The film wasn’t completed in the form that Welles originally intended… but even in this truncated form it’s amazing and memorable.” – Pauline Kael, The New Yorker

“Although reams have been written about the mutilation of Orson Welles’ second feature, what remains of it is nevertheless a major accomplishment.” – Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times