"Based on long-lost recordings, a set of riveting and revealing conversations with America's great cultural provocateur. There have long been rumors of a lost cache of tapes containing private conversations between Orson Welles and his friend the director Henry Jaglom, recorded over regular lunches in the years before Welles died. The tapes, gathering dust in a garage, did indeed exist, and this book reveals for the first time what they contain. Here...

'The Stranger' is the chilling tale of a postwar Nazi hunt that gave Orson Welles his first chance to direct in four years following 'Citizen Kane'. Welles responded to the challenge by bringing the film in on time and within budget. It was his biggest commercial success. Although many of his most interesting scenes wound up on the cutting-room floor when producer Sam Speagle re-edited the film, this is still a multi-layered, complex, and fascinating...

After a chance encounter, theater-loving teen Richard Samuels gets the opportunity of a lifetime when famous director Orson Welles gives him a small role in his 1937 production of "Julius Caesar." Unexpectedly thrust into the heady world of the stage, Richard finds himself surrounded by ambition, clashing egos and sheer brillance.