STEFANO BOSCUTTI

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Journal

Public, personal and private insights, thoughts, reminders, scenes, ideas, sketches and more. Along with an admonishment or two every now and then.

Orson Welles: Eagle Carries Off Live Baby!!!

Monkeying around

Photo of Director Charles Laughton on location with actors Peter Graves and Billy Chapin.

John Harper: A child shall lead them

Italian film poster for “The Night of the Hunter.”

John Harper: Why “The Night of the Hunter” is not film noir

Still from the film "The Night of the Hunter.”

John Harper: Charles Laughton and Davis Grubb

Three questions

Six best reasons to get your main character drunk

Three reasons why F. Scott Fitzgerald liked lists

Two exercises to make your characters stand out

Character by any other name

Three things to learn from fear

Photo of the cover of the 1937 “Film Daily Product Guide and Director’s Annual.”

Orson Welles: Hays Code