Word: schmidlin
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...having been re-edited according to the dictates of a 58-page memo written by Orson Welles after the film had been taken away from him by Universal Pictures. Welles, of course, is the patron saint of lost, botched and unfinished works. The reissue, says its producer Rick Schmidlin, is "kind of an attempt to defend his genius." Indeed, the film is now better in many of its particulars, though you still have to buy Charlton Heston as a Mexican detective. Anyway, as Schmidlin readily notes, there's no way of knowing what Welles (or Davis or Hemingway) would have...
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