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Who directed The Third Man?
Answer: Carol Reed
Why: Welles plays Harry Lime, but Carol Reed directed the film and Graham Greene wrote it.
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What rival medium exaggerated the War of the Worlds panic?
Answer: Newspapers
Why: A ratings survey of 5,000 homes that night found that 2% of respondents were listening to the play.
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In which Paris station did Welles shoot The Trial's interiors?
Answer: Gare d'Orsay
Why: The abandoned station reopened in 1986 as the Musée d'Orsay, home of a huge Impressionist collection.
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Who played the Mexican prosecutor in Touch of Evil?
Answer: Charlton Heston
Why: The source novel's prosecutor hero was Mitch Holt; Welles rewrote him as a Mexican and renamed him Miguel Vargas.
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Which radio crime fighter did Welles voice in 1937?
Answer: The Shadow
Why: On radio The Shadow simply turned invisible, since a 1930s show had no time to explain where he hid.
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What was Welles's only box-office hit as a director on release?
Answer: The Stranger
Why: Citizen Kane, by contrast, failed to earn back its costs when it first opened in 1941.
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