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''Too Much Johnson'' is a 1938 American silent 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 shot to be integrated into Welles's Mercury Theatre stage presentation of William Gillette's 1894 comedy, but the motion picture sequences could not be shown due to the absence of projection facilities at the venue, the Stony Creek Theatre in Connecticut. The resulting plot confusion reportedly contributed to the stage production's failure. The film was believed to be lost, but in 2008 a print was discovered in a warehouse in Pordenone, Italy.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Film Threat’s Top 10 Lost Films )〕〔 The film premiered Wednesday, October 9, 2013, at the Pordenone Silent Film Festival. In 2014 the film was made available online by the National Film Preservation Foundation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Preserved Films: "Too Much Johnson" Work Print (1938, 66 min.) )〕 Two previous films had been made of this play, a short film in 1900 and a feature length Paramount film in 1919 starring Lois Wilson and Bryant Washburn. Both of these films are now lost. ==Cast== *Joseph Cotten as Augustus Billings *Virginia Nicolson as Lenore Faddish *Edgar Barrier as Leon Dathis *Arlene Francis as Mrs. Dathis *Ruth Ford as Mrs. Billings *Howard Smith as Joseph Johnson *Mary Wickes as Mrs. Battison *Eustace Wyatt as Faddish *Guy Kingsley as MacIntosh *George Duthie as Purser *Orson Welles as Keystone Kop *John Houseman as Duelist 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Too Much Johnson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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