I want to thank Ellen Edgerton for her intelligent comments on Branagh.  As

someone (Tony Williams?) suggested, we are caught in a curious position if

we look at Branagh as the new Boy Wonder Auteur of the Decade.  A fuller

accounting of his films (as of Olivier's) must take the different levels

of production and collaboration into account.  On a similar note, Welles's

CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT evolved in part from his attempt to do a stage epic of

 the Henriad.

 

--Don Larsson, Mankato State U., MN