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Transcript: Orson Welles' Film `It's All True' Available on Video
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- NPR Morning Edition
- Article date:
- October 4, 1994
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BOB EDWARDS, Host: In 1941, Orson Welles was the boy wonder of Hollywood.
He had just finished his bombshell of a first film, Citizen Kane.
The U.S. government asked him to make a movie that would boost President
Roosevelt's Good Neighbor Policy in Latin America. So, Welles went
immediately to Brazil, where he hoped to make a film called It's All
True. But, the project not only failed to assist Roosevelt, it helped
to ruin Welles' reputation in Hollywood. Now you can see on home
video all that's left of a movie that Hollywood shelved for 50 years.
Pat Dowell reports.
PAT DOWELL, Reporter: Orson Welles was fond of saying that there
was a curse on ...