Monday, March 09, 2020

1953: "Return to Glennascaul" a short story by Orson Welles worth watching



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Not long ago, TCM featured "Return to Glennascaul" a 1953 movie by Orson Welles.   

The film is 23 minutes long or sort of like a short story.    

This is the plot:   
Orson Welles, taking a break from the filming of The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (1951), is driving in the Irish countryside one night when he offers a ride to a man with car trouble. 
The man relates a strange event that happened to him at the same location. Two women flagged down his car one evening, asking for a ride back to their manor. 
They invited him in for a drink, and after leaving, he went back for his cigarette case. He found the manor deserted and decayed. 
In Dublin, a real estate broker told him the mother and daughter had died years ago. 
Welles, sufficiently spooked, drops the man off at his home, and speeds on by when two other stranded women wave for a ride.
The rest is on you!  Watch it!


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