Caught my eye when I was channel-surfing
It's amazing that Welles was mimicking the style of the old films, in 1938, no less, but with an art-house twist. Anyone else unable to look away from this film? The camera angles, the lighting, the close-ups, the facial expressions, the sets; his early brilliance was clearly on display here. It's bizarre to see Joseph Cotton as an ersatz Harold Lloyd doing silent-era slapstick, ten years after talkies were invented, now I've seen everything. Welles was way ahead of his time.
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