CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

Heikki comments:
"I would be ready to agree with you right away (at least
place it at the side of TOUCH OF EVIL) if the soundtrack
weren't so clumsy. But is it a part of the film's charm?"

Charm?  Maybe.  Necessity, yes.  Welles had to get the actors to postdub
dialogue (many of the supporting roles were cast with non-English-speaking
Spaniards)--if you listen hard, you can hear Welles filling in some of the
bits himself (not untypical of him).  Still, the use of music, the sounds
of the Battle of Shrewsbury, and the great readings by Gielgud, Keith Baxter,
and Welles himself are recompense enough.

I'm really reaching for a Pynchon connection here . . . 

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)