The Creature in the Mine Mixed Media 2012 Bill Ohrmann Collection Ladies and gentleman, by way of introduction, this is a film about trickery, fraud, about lies. Tell it by the fireside or in a marketplace or in a movie, almost any story is almost certainly some kind of lie. But not this time. This is a promise. For the next hour, everything you hear from us is really true and based on solid fact. -Orson Welles, From F for Fake |
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