The ingenious reporter

Series: Orson Welles Great Mysteries Series

Duration: 0:24:22

Genre: Adaptation | Educational | Mystery

Year Published: 1973

Creator: Encyclopaedia Britannica Educational Corporation: Distributor | Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor | Twentieth Century-Fox: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Dramatizes the mystery story by Pontsevrez in which a young American reporter working in Paris decides to pose as a murder suspect to improve his paper's circulation only to have the plan backfire when the murder victim is identified as the reporter's sweetheart and no one will believe his story. Emphasizes aspects of the classic mystery story. Includes an introduction by Orson Welles and a performance by David Birney.

Complete Record: , Dramatizes the mystery story by Pontsevrez in which a young American reporter working in Paris decides to pose as a murder suspect to improve his paper's circulation only to have the plan backfire when the murder victim is identified as the reporter's sweetheart and no one will believe his story. Emphasizes aspects of the classic mystery story. Includes an introduction by Orson Welles and a performance by David Birney.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.