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Too Much Johnson

Too Much Johnson

1938
Comedy
1h 7m
Too Much Johnson is a 1938 American comedy film written and directed by Orson Welles. The film was made three years before Welles directed Citizen Kane, but it was never publicly screened. The film was believed to be lost, but in 2008 a print was discovered in a warehouse in Pordenone, Italy. The film premiered Wednesday, October 9, 2013, at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival, with the possibility of being available online later in the year. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Too Much Johnson

1938
Comedy
1h 7m
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Rated 31 Jan 2021
50
43rd
Fair impression of silent screen comedy. Score is meaningless.
Rated 23 Aug 2014
70
34th
A complete film? No, but certainly an interesting watch for a film buff. Early Welles, early Cotton. You can never have too much Johnson. That's what I hear, anyway.
Rated 22 Feb 2015
30
34th
One of Orson Welles' "student films, learning his trade before he made it big professionally. Here filming his theater pals doing the play Too Much Johnson in old school slapstick style. Heavily influenced by Harold Lloyd and just about every slapstick movie since the birth of Keystone in 1912. Nothing more then a parody doing a silent nearly a decade after sound was established, and with half-assed acting to boot.
Rated 08 Jun 2016
33
22nd
Almost impossible to rate because it's not a complete experience--the footage was meant to be shown between scenes of a stage play. The uncut version is about 10 minutes of romantic interlude, followed by almost an hour of slapstick chase/hide-and-seek, including multiple takes of many of the scenes. It's not an actual movie, nor was it ever intended to be.

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