“More Or Less, It’s About The Visitation Of A Dandyish Grim Reaper”

Orson Welles’ first film, a 1934 avant garde silent short, “Hearts of Age,” which was made with a school chum named William Vance. More or less, it’s about the visitation of a dandyish Grim Reaper (played hauntingly by Welles) upon the lives of a couple of grotesque Colonial American characters. Seemingly influenced by German Expressionism, D.W. Griffith, Dali and Buñuel.

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