Orson Around - The Making Of Touch Of Evil
It offered 'bad boy wonder' Orson Welles a chance to return to Hollywood. Instead, the brutal film noir marked the end of the Citizen Kane creator's American career.
A version of this piece originally appeared in Hotdog.
Few people have made the transition from wunderkind to washout as quickly as Orson Welles. When the 24-year-old Orson looked over the set of debut film Citizen Kane, he described it as “the biggest train set a boy ever had”. Six short years later, Welles’ career was so badly derailed he was reduced t…
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