This film was not intended to stand by itself, but was designed as the cinematic aspect of Welles' Mercury Theatre stage presentation of William Gillette's 1894 comedy about a New York playboy who flees from the violent husband of his mistress and borrows the identity of a plantation owner in Cuba who is expecting the arrival of a mail order bride. The film component of the performance was ultimately never screened due to the absence of projection facilities at the venue. Long-believed to be lost, a workprint was discovered in 2008 and the film had its premiere in 2013.
Joseph Cotten
as Augustus Billings
Virginia Nicolson
as Lenore Faddish
Arlene Francis
as Mrs. Dathis
Mary Wickes
as Mrs. Battison
Orson Welles
as Keystone Kop
John Houseman
as Duelist
Judy Holliday
as (uncredited)
Edgar Barrier
as Leon Dathis
Ruth Ford
as Mrs. Billings
Eustace Wyatt
as Francis Faddish
Guy Kingsley Poynter
as Henry MacIntosh
George Duthie
as Purser
