AFI's 100 Greatest Alternate Versions

In this sequel to Citizen Kane, Charles Foster's bastard son, Christopher, continues to search for the story behind his father's famous last word but fails to discover it and in the end is institutionalized. The film is, of course, called Kit Is Insane.

As variant to his groundbreaking On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan's new production portrays life in and around the world of horse racing experienced by Edie Doyle's younger sister, a dwarfling. Elia calls his film Wanda, Odd Turf Runt.

With production of Wanda well under way, cinebuffs learned that a Mexican film company is developing an animated sequel to Kazan's classic which will relate the adventures of a young Chicano who escapes LA gang life to become A&R man for a group of performing sea mammals living and working in the waters off the Baja Peninsula. Planned for a Christmas holiday release, the film is called Juan the Otter Front.

In so-called Wuthering Heights II, Heathcliff and Cathy depart the Yorkshire moors for a West Indies sugar plantation where they spend their lives harassing a native population in bondage. The working title of this sequel is Hovering Whites.

In re-envisioning The Maltese Falcon as a biopic, documentary film makers feature journalist Muggeridge playing himself and claiming full responsibility for Original Sin. The film is called The Fault? 'Tis Malcolm's.

This made-for-TV feature takes a U-turn from its model, The Grapes of Wrath. In the revision, Grampa Joad, after dying of the drug overdose administered by his family, returns to confront Tom, Rose of Sharon and the others, ultimately convincing the lot to eighty-six their trip to California and to emigrate instead to Bar Harbor, Maine. Rated R for language, the film is called The Wraith of Gramps.