USA,
1938, 40 min
(Director's cut: 66 min)
Directed by:
Orson WellesScreenplay:
Orson WellesCast:
Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, Edgar Barrier, Arlene Francis, John Houseman, Judy Holliday, John Berry, Richard Wilson, Mary Wickes, Howard Smith (more)Plots(1)
Too Much Johnson is an elaborate 1890s farce of mistaken identity. Cuckolded husband Dathis (Edgar Barrier) is on the tale of a man named Billings (Joseph Cotten), who has been having an affair with Dathis’s wife (Arlene Francis). Billings flees by ship to Cuba, where now also hiding from his own wife (Ruth Ford) and mother-in-law, he adopts the identity of a plantation owner named Johnson, who is expecting a mail-order bride. Orson Welles plays a Keystone Kop. (Mr. Bongo Films)
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