In the early 1950s, while Orson Welles was in Europe filming his adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Othello,” he also helped his friend, Irish actor Hilton Edwards, by starring in Edwards' eerie short film, “Return to Glennascaul,” which is also called “Orson Welles’ Ghost Story.”
The 22-minute film was shown in 1953 and was nominated for an Academy Award for best two-reel short of that year. (It lost to Walt Disney’s “Bear Country.”)
Here is a link to Edwards’ movie on YouTube.
And here is a link to an introduction to the film by Peter Bogdanovich.
Not big on Halloween I'm afraid Elgin. My kids (early 20s) are. I think it's an American tradition which has gradually been incorporated into the UK psyche, a bit like school proms.
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