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Recounts the plots of the 1932 Boris Karloff mystery "The Mummy" and of numerous later movies during which old mummies go back to lifestyles.
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Filming scene on rocks where Iago and Cassio discuss Desdemona within earshot of Othello. Place was used for fishing and as toilet by Arabs, so they had to be thrown off the set. 14 July: Betsy sent to Paris on holiday - never heard of again. 17 July: For drunk scene real barrels of wine were issued - good time had by the Jewish extras. 19 July: Shooting in Safi. 23 July: Shooting with Desdemona in scenes, but no actress actually in shot. 25 July: Filming stopped for Welles to go earn some more money.
Aside from the angles necessitated by working within the tall clock tower, there is very little in the look and feel that suggests Welles was the director. When Mary faints after confronting Kindler, she blurs, just as Vargas would blur many years later in Touch Of Evil. Audio Ideas: Kindler’s speech at the end, about people as ants, is a precursor of Welles’ famous scene as Harry Lime in The Third Man, on a Ferris wheel, when Lime refers to people as ants. The chimes always seem to signify that someone has died, just as the bell tolled for people in Welles’ film of Macbeth.
On the boat, Arkadin and Mily kiss. Mily is drunk and tells Arkadin that they know so much: in 1927 a tailor noticed that Arkadin’s suit was made in Warsaw; the Nazis gave him money because of his South American connections; that he built roads for Mussolini and men died. The next morning, a woman’s naked body lies dead on a beach. Paris: Arkadin has dinner with the charming Baroness Nagel who says that there is a class distinction which means that criminals with money are 54 no longer considered criminals.