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