Shock Corridor

By the age of 28 Orson Welles had made his first film and that film would come to define and, arguably, haunt him for the rest his career and perhaps his life. A career dogged by unfinished projects, visions revisioned by studios and a reputation for being 'difficult' (which is what people call you if they think you're a c*nt but also want to hedge their bets), his later films were often lost in development hell and/or funding droughts. Some might say that he peaked right off the bat, personally I'm not one of them, but as he said himself, "I started at the top and worked my way down." Contracturally that may have been true but arguably not in creative terms. His first film was Citizen Kane (1941) and is a towering piece of work, influential, experimental and controversial. It frequently tops critics best film lists and is know to most people who have seen films with an regularity. Getting those same people to name three other films he made might not be s