Return to Glennascaul

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Return to Glennascaul
Orson Welles in Return to Glennascaul
Directed by	Hilton Edwards
Written by	Hilton Edwards
Produced by	Micheál Mac Liammóir
Starring	Orson Welles
Production company	Dublin Gate Theatre Productions
Distributed by	Arthur Mayer-Edward Kingsley (US)
Release date	1951 (1951)
Running time	23 minutes
Country	Ireland
Language	English

Return to Glennascaul, also known as Orson Welles' Ghost Story, is a 1951 short film starring Orson Welles. It was written and directed by Hilton Edwards and produced by Micheál Mac Liammóir for Dublin Gate Theatre Productions.

The plot is derived from the ubiquitous story of the vanishing hitchhiker. It is similar to Lucille Fletcher's original radio play, The Hitch-Hiker, which was first performed in 1941 on The Orson Welles Show starring Welles as the spooked driver.

Plot summary[]

Welles, playing himself 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 relates a strange event that happened to him at the same location. Two women flagged down his car one evening, asking for a ride back to their manor. They invited him in for a drink. The daughter, Lucy Campbell, was apparently the long lost love of the mans uncle by the inscription read in the cigarette case she admired. {Her first name, Lucy, is not revealed until the end of the story} After leaving, he went back for his cigarette case. He found the manor deserted and decayed. In Dublin, a real estate broker told him the mother and daughter had died years ago. Welles, sufficiently spooked, drops the man off at his home and leaves in a hurry when the man asks him in for a cup of tea or something stronger as the ghostly women had earlier invited him into Glennascaul. As Welles drives off he passes two other stranded women who wave for a ride, flesh and blood women who recognize the famous actor behind the wheel.

Awards[]

The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Subject.^[1]

Releases[]

This film is only 23 minutes long and is an extra on the recently released reissued DVD of Welles' Othello. It was also released as Orson Welles' Ghost Story.

References[]

External links[]

• Return to Glennascaul at IMDb

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