Of the music accompanying Elsa's dive into the water, Orson Welles said it was more suitable "for some antic moment in a Silly Symphony, a pratfall by Pluto the Pup, or a wild jump into space by Donald Duck."

Flynn skippered the Zaca between takes, and he can be spotted in the background in a scene outside a cantina. Orson Welles never viewed the rushes.

Wide-angle lenses were used to lend distortion to close-ups.

Brendan Fraser was eyeing the Welles role of Michael O'Hara and wanted Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones to play Arthur and Elsa Bannister. The Hall of Mirrors maze was designed with the help of special effects wizard

Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.

However, she soon starts to have her doubts. A private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him.

The character played by Everett Sloane describes himself at one point as the son of "a Manchester Greek," an in-joke reference to Orson Welles' frequent stage and radio collaborator George Coulouris (most famous for playing Mr. Thatcher in Citizen Kane (1941)), who was the son of a Greek immigrant to the UK and who was born in the city of Manchester. Other titles considered for the film were "Black Irish" and "If I Die Before I Wake," the title of the novel upon which the film was based. A stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in a Mexican border town. Costume Designer

The cast was frequently frustrated and confused by arriving on the set to find Orson Welles rewriting the script from day to day. The cast was frequently frustrated and confused by arriving on the set to find The film stars Dolores del Rio, a former girlfriend of Welles'.

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In particular, the final mirror scene was supposed to be unscored, to create the sense of terror. Columbia Pictures chief Harry Cohn thought the movie would ruin his star, Rita Hayworth, and held the release back for one year.

The actor did as instructed and while he lay there, he said a studio rep handed him a pen and a contract to sign.

Except for a few minor instances of this effect (the grating voices of Bannister and Grisby, the overdubbing of the final dialogue in the Hall of Mirrors), almost all were "corrected" by the Columbia sound department. Known For

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Everett Sloane refused to wear the leg braces constructed for his character, complaining bitterly of the pain they caused.