The Bad Man is a 1920 three-act comedy play by American playwright Porter Emerson Browne . The Broadway production at the Comedy Theatre ran for 342 performances beginning August 30, 1920. It was included in Burns Mantle 's The Best Plays of 1920–1921 .
11-540: The Bad Man may refer to: The Bad Man (play) , a 1920 play by Porter Emerson Browne, basis for all three films The Bad Man (1923 film) , an American silent film drama directed by Edwin Carewe The Bad Man (1930 film) , an American early sound film starring Walter Huston The Bad Man (1941 film) , an American film starring Wallace Beery and Ronald Reagan See also [ edit ] A Bad Man ,
22-582: A 1967 novel by Stanley Elkin Badman (disambiguation) Villain (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The Bad Man . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Bad_Man&oldid=1014027057 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
33-559: A young American, is the ostensible owner of the ranch, but the $ 10,000 with which he bought it was borrowed from his uncle, Henry Smith of Bangor, Maine , who is living with him. A year after the purchase young Jones enlisted in the American army, saw service in France , and when he returned found his property practically worthless. Mexican bandits had stolen most of his cattle and such crops as had been planted had failed. In an effort to save
44-666: Is always in long-shot and almost always clouded in shadow. As noted by film critic Roger Ebert on the DVD commentary of Citizen Kane , Alland once reportedly told an audience that they would probably recognize him if he were to show his back to them. In addition to his role as Thompson in Citizen Kane , Alland announces the "News on the March" newsreel segment, a spoof of the then-popular March of Time newsreels. In later years, Alland twice provided voiceovers for pastiches of this News on
55-540: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages The Bad Man (play) Playwright Porter Emerson Browne declares a certain timeliness of theme by employing the former Mexican bandit, Pancho Villa , as a hero of the proceedings, though he thinly disguises him under the name of Pancho Lopez. The scene is a cattle ranch near the Mexican border in Arizona . Gilbert Jones,
66-636: The Henry Street Settlement House, where he met Orson Welles . He lent his voice to Welles's The War of the Worlds . Alland won a Peabody Award as producer of Doorway to Life . Alland's role as reporter Jerry Thompson in Citizen Kane (1941) is unusual because the camera never closes up on his face; in fact, for the majority of his scenes in the film, he shows his back to the camera, and whenever his face can be seen, it
77-672: The March segment: once for the 1974 Orson Welles film F for Fake and again for a 1991 Arena documentary for the BBC titled The Complete Citizen Kane . In 1953, Alland appeared before a meeting of the House Un-American Activities Committee in Los Angeles, acknowledging that he had been a member of the Communist Party and naming other people who were involved with the party. The meeting
88-662: The meaning of "Rosebud" in Orson Welles 's Citizen Kane (1941). Alland was born in Delmar, Delaware . Alland entered films as an actor, perhaps best remembered as the reporter Jerry Thompson, who investigates the life of newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane in Orson Welles 's Citizen Kane (1941). He also directed the film Look in Any Window . In his early 20s, Alland arrived in Manhattan and took courses at
99-687: The property he mortgaged the ranch to Jasper Hardy, the sheriff of the county, and the play opens the day the mortgage is to be foreclosed by Hardy. The Bad Man was one of the early successes of the Broadway season. Produced at the Comedy Theatre by William H. Harris Jr. and staged by Lester Lonergan, the play ran from August 30, 1920, until June 1921. The play was adapted for three films— The Bad Man (1923) starring Holbrook Blinn ; The Bad Man (1930) starring Walter Huston ; and The Bad Man (1941) starring Wallace Beery . The Bad Man
110-467: Was adapted for the CBS Radio series The Campbell Playhouse on May 19, 1939. The cast included Orson Welles (Pancho Lopez), Ida Lupino (Lucia Pell), Frank Readick (Gilbert Phebbs), Ray Collins (Uncle Phipps), William Alland (Morgan Pell), Diana Stevens (Dot), Everett Sloane (Louie) and Edward Jerome (Pedro). William Alland William Alland (March 4, 1916 – November 11, 1997)
121-532: Was an American actor, film producer and writer, mainly of Western and science-fiction/monster films, including This Island Earth , It Came From Outer Space , Tarantula! , The Deadly Mantis , The Mole People , The Colossus of New York , The Space Children , and the three Creature from the Black Lagoon films. He worked frequently with director Jack Arnold . Alland is also remembered for his acting role as reporter Thompson, who investigates
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