NEW FILM STARRING ORSON Welles began appearing in multiplexes in January that brought to the screen one of the most spectacular publishing sensations in history. The Late, Great Planet Earth, by the evangelist Hal Lindsey, had sold nearly ten million copies since its original appearance in 1970. By March, the movie version was one of Hollywood’s top ten moneymakers. “Seventy percent of the prophesies written in the Bible have already been fulfilled,” Orson Welles boomed. “If the visions of the prophet John are truly prophetic, the remaining visions will be fulfilled in our lifetime.… What are
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