Baby Brass Ring

[Tony]

Here is a URL for info about a short called "The Big Brass Ring" and it really is short: about 6 minutes long. It has Malcolm McDowell as Kim Menaker, and it was directed (in 1997) by George Hickenlooper, who directed the feature BBR.

Has anyone seen this Baby Brass Ring?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283261/

[RayKelly]

It was on a DVD collection called SHORTS a few years ago.
I believe it was made as a means of selling the film to potential investors. If my memory is correct, I read once that William Hurt did not want McDowell in the final film.
I like the short better than the full film. The scene is faithful to Welles script except Hickenlooper changed one of the Menaker dialogue bits. The reference to Harvard was replaced with Yale (Hickenlooper's alma mater).

[Store Hadji]

Personally I would have preferred McDowell to Hurt. And the original screenplay.

[Tony]

But McDowell played Menaker in the short... ???