 After a disastrous preview, it was clear to the suits at RKO that  the film was too long, too dense and too sombre. Welles, however,  had decamped to Brazil where he was in the midst of working on a  film called "Its All True" (which was never completed). Welles had  been shipped out there under the auspices of Nelson Rockefeller, one  of the chief shareholders in RKO, to make a film boosting US