This three minute short was the last completed work by the great Orson Welles. It simply shows him sitting down and reading from the journals of Charles Lindbergh. These two men have a lot in common they both achieved great fame when they were very young (Lindy with his famous flight and Welles with his War Of The Worlds broadcast and then Citizen Kane) and then both achieved notoriety as well. After Kane Welles was only able to complete eleven others films, a couple television episodes, a documentary about magic called F For Fake and this little film. He had over a hundred other projects in his life that he wanted to do but for some reason, be it bad luck or perhaps his ego he was unable to complete. Its so sad that a man who made the most famous radio play in history and began his Hollywood career by directing a film that some have called the greatest ever should end his life a bloated caricature of himself doing tv commercials, voice overs and telling stale jokes on talk shows and Dean Martin celebrity roasts. Welles in now recognized as a true genius and its a shame everyone didn't think so when he was still alive.
Review of The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh
