Volume 40, Number 9 · May 13, 1993
The Lost Kingdom of Orson Welles
By Joseph McBride
This Is Orson Welles
by Orson Welles, by Peter Bogdanovich, edited by Jonathan Rosenbaum
HarperCollins, 533 pp., $30.00
This Is Orson Welles (audio tapes)
conversations between Welles and Bogdanovich, edited by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Caedmon, 4 hrs pp., $25.00
The Cradle Will Rock
a screenplay by Orson Welles, edited by James Pepper
Santa Teresa Press
The Magnificent Ambersons: A Reconstruction
by Robert L. Carringer
University of California Press, 307 pp., $30.00
One of Orson Welles's best stories, though not one of his best films, Mr. Arkadin (1955) tells of an aging tycoon of mysterious origins who becomes terminally anxious that the guilty secrets of his past will come to light. He hires a venal adventurer to seek out the people who still remember the truth—and then has them systematically killed. When it becomes clear that the scheme has failed and the truth has been unmasked, Arkadin kills himself by jumping from his plane, vanishing (literally) into thin air.
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