Upcoming Events at AFS Cinema
Wed Jul 3, 7:00 PM - Wed Jul 3, 8:30 PM
6406 N IH-35 Frontage Road, Suite 3100, Austin, TX 78752
Community: Austin
Description
Strapped for cash, Orson Welles made a spur-of-the-moment deal with Columbia Pictures honcho Harry Cohn to direct and star – alongside Welles’ wife at the time, Rita Hayworth – in an adaptation of a pulp novel.
Event Details
As you would expect with Welles, he turns the story of a convoluted murder plot into something of much greater import than the novel presupposes. The hall-of-mirrors climax of this film is rightly celebrated as one of the greatest moments in all of Hollywood cinema.
