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Oscar-Nominated Shorts

Return to Glennascaul

23m

Directed by Hilton Edwards • 1953 • United Kingdom

Orson Welles, playing himself, picks up a hitchhiker who recounts a strange story. Actors Micheál MacLiammóir and Hilton Edwards made this short film during a hiatus from shooting OTHELLO (1952).

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