Word: welleses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Stranger (International-RKO Radio) is a cunning conspiracy to scare the daylights out of you. Adroitly directed by Orson Welles, who also plays the star, it is a grade A gooseflesh-raiser.
Orson Welles talked like a square peg. "Actually, I don't like publicity," declared the fabulous Poo-Bah of Around the World (see THEATER). "I don't like to be photographed or interviewed. I'm afraid of being misquoted. I'm just a tired sort of...
Around the World (adapted by Orson Welles from Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days; music & lyrics by Cole Porter; produced by Mr. Welles) is Orson Welles with his foot on the loud pedal-which is roughly the equivalent of a lunatic asylum at the height of...
Except for a first-rate circus act and one or two amusing scenes, all the showmanship of Around the World is in the staging. There is something pretty empty and amateurish about the show. It falls down as burlesque, displaying far too little wit and far too much Welles.
Unwisely, too, Welles's extravaganza from time to time pauses for identification as a musical comedy. But the love interest, the exotic dances and Cole Porter's tired tunes merely check the pace without livening the party.