unitedfan6191 OP t1_je5kvlr wrote
Reply to comment by BEE_REAL_ in Of all the movies that were rushed through production and released very quickly, which ones amazed you most with the final product? by unitedfan6191
Wow, sounds insane.
Did he have anyone around him who helped or was it all his own drive and skill, an individual tour de force?
BEE_REAL_ t1_je5mayv wrote
By all accounts the cast and crew were very up to it (the cast had to lobby the studio to let him direct, because he was essentially blacklisted at the time from directing), but Welles was probably the most talented director in the world at that point yeah. The Citizen Kane of directors, some would say lol
His previous few movies were actually the opposite: because of extreme budget and production constraints, they were shot over a period of years in bits and pieces and had to be cobbled together later. Orson was already very used to making films with extreme limitations
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