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This run down is completely and unequivocally wrong. Welles was not going to put on a film of it, Welles and the Mercury Theatre were going to put on a stage play of it and hit upon the idea of filming a short interlude set on the steam ship between New York & Cuba. It was intended to be 10-20 minutes at most, however what little was filmed was shelved when the play itself was abandoned, primarily for not being up to scratched compared to their previous productions [Julius Ceaser set in then modern fascist Italy, Faust, etc] - LamontCranston 18:12 16 November 2005 (UTC)
I have received a response from Nancy Goldman, Head, PFA Library & Film Study Center, regarding a now-deleted claim that an incomplete print exists and was shown by the Pacific Film Archive. She confirms the claim is erroneous: what was shown was "a 3 minute long home / amateur movie related to the making of TOO MUCH JOHNSON". Clarityfiend (talk) 02:31, 3 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]
The majority of sources give 1970 as the year of the fire, but others give 1971. I have changed the reference to 71 in this article to "the early seventies". The Main article on Welles also gives 1970. μηδείς (talk) 15:23, 8 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
In the career chronology in This is Orson Welles, page 439, Jonathan Rosenbaum has August 1970: "A fire breaks out in OW's villa in Madrid during his absence, destroying many personal possessions, including scripts, correspondence, and films." The next event in the chronology is August 17, 1970. I've made the change in the article. — WFinch (talk) 22:03, 9 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]
