Return to Glennascaul

Return to Glennascaul, also known as Orson Welles' Ghost Story, is a 1951 short film starring Orson Welles. It was written and directed by Hilton Edwards and produced by Micheál MacLiammóir. The plot is derived from the ubiquitous story of the vanishing hitchhiker. It is similar to Lucille Fletcher's old time radio play entitled "The Hitchhiker", which was performed several times on the show Suspense and also starred Welles as the spooked driver. Welles (playing himself), taking a break from the filming of Othello, is driving in the Irish countryside one night when he offers a ride to a man with car trouble. The man relates a strange event that happened to him at the same location. Two women flagged down his car one evening, asking for...