Orson Welles spearheads another investigation into the past of an enigmatic tycoon, played again by Welles himself, in one of the worst makeup jobs of his career (and that's saying something!). It's a kind of comic-book edition of Citizen Kane, on an even skimpier budget, with crazily off-kilter camera set-ups and disembodied dubbed voices. In small doses it is one of Welles's most entertaining works, slightly more so than those better-known potboilers, Lady from Shanghai and Touch of Evil; and in large doses it is one of his most self-revealing ones, too. But the eccentricity is finally too put-on, and too thickly put-on, not to become a bit of a trial. Made in 1955 and released in the U.S. in 1962. With Robert Arden, Paola Mori, Akim Tamiroff, and Michael Redgrave. (1955) — Duncan Shepherd
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