Return to Glennascaul (1952)

Orson Welles: Narrator, Orson Welles

Photos 

Quotes 

• Orson Welles : What happened to your car?

  Sean Merriman : I had trouble with the distributor. I say, aren't you...?

  Orson Welles : Uh... yes, I am. I've had trouble with my distributor, too.

• Orson Welles : [narration]  Tea in a suburban home - nothing out-of-the-way about that. But as he sat there, chatting with the two ladies, he felt that something - he couldn't tell what - but *something* was very definitely... out-of-the-way.

• Orson Welles : [narration]  The house was called Glennascaul. That's Irish for: Glen of the Shadows.

• Orson Welles : [narration]  Ladies and gentlemen, this is your obedient servant, Orson Welles, speaking. I am interrupting here the making of one movie, to speak these few words at the beginning of... well, what shall we call it? A short story. A short story straight from the haunted land of Ireland. Haunted, I say, because there's no place in the world so crowded with the raw material of tall tales. That's what this is, then: a tall tale. Reportedly, it happened to me - but I promise shortly to withdraw from the proceedings and to return to my own movie studio and my own movie - but not before taking this opportunity to apologize to the two ladies I passed so very abruptly one spooky Irish midnight not so long ago.

• [first lines] 

  Assistant Director : Quiet, please.

  Camera Operator : Rolling. Clapper.

  Clapper Loader : "Othello", 3-28, take 3.

  Orson Welles : [seen in silhouette, starring as Othello]  Of being taken by the insolent foe, and sold to slavery; of my redemption thence, and portance in my travels history. Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, it was my hint... I'm sorry - I can't get the thing at all. Let's break for lunch.