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Return to Glennascaul

Return to Glennascaul

  • Status: Released
  • 01-02-1953
  • Runtime: 23 min
  • Score: 6.481
  • Vote count: 27

Orson Welles, taking a break from the filming of "Othello," is driving in the Irish countryside one night when he offers a ride to a man with car trouble. The man relays to Welles a strange tale of an encounter he had once before at the same isolated location.

Orson Welles

Narrator

Michael Laurence

Sean Merriman

Shelah Richards

Mrs. Campbell

Helena Hughes

Lucy Campbell

John Dunne

Daly

Isobel Couser

The Short Woman

Ann Clery

The Tall Woman

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With Orson Welles needing a break from filming his “Othello” in Ireland in 1951, he set off to drive to Dublin when he encountered a motorist stranded on the dark. Offering this somewhat reluctant traveller a lift, he (Michael Laurence) regales his rescuer with an intriguing story about one evening when he did some rescuing of his own. This involved two ladies whom he took to their home and accepted a few minutes of hospitality. Realising swiftly after departure that he’s left his cigarette case he doubles back - and that’s when he gets quite a surprise and we get a mystery. I really quite enjoyed this spookily short drama that plays a little on the dark and rainy night as a perfect conduit for a charmingly incomplete tale that left me wanting just a little more.