Synopsis
The largely unfulfilled promise of Orson Welles's cinematic career was not a result of his "inner demons," argues this work, but the inevitable result of a Hollywood system that could not abide by Welles's approach to filmmaking. Basing his work on shooting scripts, interviews with key players, Welles's correspondence, internal memos, and other materials, the author reconstructs the process by which Welles's films within the studio system were often transformed into works at odds with the original visions had by Welles. Distributed in the US by the Independent Publishers Group. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The New York Times - Budd Schulberg
While Heylin's prose is only workmanlike, with an occasional lapse in grammar, we aren't looking for Lionel Trilling here. We're looking at the most meticulous champion Orson Welles has ever had. For those of you who are scholars of Welles, amateur or pro, or simply wondering what in the world happened to him after his astonishing debut with ''Citizen Kane,'' this is the book for you.