This broadly scaled historical documentary chronicles the life of Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), widely...
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Narrator
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2009
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Screenwriter and Shock Festival author Stephen Romano takes viewers on a sexy, sleazy ride though the wildest horror and...
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2009
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2008
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2006
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2006
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The "Welles" in question, of course, is Hollywood maestro Orson Welles, and the "other side" refers to his personal life....
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2005
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Mind City Productions presents a spine-tingling adaptation of Orson Welles' tale concerning a man driven to the edge of...
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2004
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2002
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This lavish, cable-TV remake of Orson Welles' The Magnficent Ambersons endeavored to prove Welles right by adhering to his...
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From Screenplay by
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2001
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2000
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Orson Welles had a great love for Spain; he often worked there, had an estate in Madrid, and his remains are buried in...
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2000
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When Hal Lindsey's book The Late Great Planet Earth was first published in the early '70s, Christians and many others combed...
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1999
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Planned as an episode of his mid-'50s television series Around the World With Orson Welles, The Dominici Affair proves that...
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Director
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1999
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The second volume in a series of videos collecting great short films, this program includes La Jetee, Chris Marker's poetic...
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Short Story Author
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1997
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Utilizing archival footage, personal interviews and film clips, This compilation film, recounts the colorful history of and...
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1996
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Henry Jaglom is a filmmaker who was a pioneer of the independent film movement long before it had a name. Jaglom began his...
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1995
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1995
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This fascinating documentary is almost completely comprised of scenes from Welles' uncompleted films, most of which have...
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1995
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In 1994, the British Film Institute commissioned a set of films to mark the centenary of the movies. They would trace the...
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1995
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1995
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1995
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1995
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1995
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1995
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1993
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It is rumored that Orson Welles spent the last 25 years doing little more than wine commercials and appearing on the Johnny...
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1993
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Both a documentary and a unique exercise in film restoration, It's All True tells the complex story of Orson Welles'...
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1993
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Over the course of his lifetime, the legendary director Orson Welles (1915-1985) was forced to leave many of his grander...
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Director, Screenwriter, Constantino Romero
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1992
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This documentary respectfully interviews a number of important American directors who have in one way or another "bucked the...
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1990
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Danny's Friend
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1988
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A unique presentation that features six hours of Orson Welles' best radio work. This is an audio only production. ~ Rovi...
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1988
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In this theatrically released chapter of the 1984-1987 syndicated animated series, the struggle between the heroic Autobots...
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Unicron
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1986
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An ex-convict turned sheriff's deputy must face his guilty conscience, which is obsessed with his identity change following a...
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Sheriff Paisley
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1986
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The titular, glowing greenstone is located somewhere in an enchanted, forbidden forest. Living on the edge of the woods, a...
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1985
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The made-for-television Scene of the Crime is an anthology crime film, featuring three different short films--"The Newlywed...
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1985
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In his last acting assignment before his death, Orson Welles narrates this highly unusual episode of Moonlighting. While...
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1985
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An adventurous chipmunk sets out on a perilous journey to join his fellow chipmunks in nature and find his destiny in this...
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1984
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An educational video as the crew of the Calypso takes you down the Amazon River to examine how the transportation of cocaine...
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1984
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Magnum (Tom Selleck) is simultaneously solicited by Higgins (John Hillerman) and Robin Masters (still unseen, but voiced by...
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1984
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Filmed in 1982, just three years before he died, this long interview with Orson Welles highlights the famous...
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1984
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Where Is Parsifal? -- he (Tony Curtis) is in a castle surrounded by nutcakes, himself a hypochondriac who has invented a...
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1984
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This compilation documentary covers the massive anti-nuclear peace march held in New York City on June 12, 1982, including...
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1984
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1984
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In this look at Yiddish filmmaking and its changing perspectives during the era of the early sound pictures (1930s), director...
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1983
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The guests at Robin Master's Spring Equinox party find themselves trapped on the estate by a raging typhoon. Unfortunately,...
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1983
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After a man (Michael Emil) and a woman (Karen Black) meet and begin to become romantically involved, his confirmed...
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Consultant/advisor
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1983
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From the personal journals of Richard Wagner comes this account of a love for the city of Canals. Includes excerpts from his...
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Narrator
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1982
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1982
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Magnum (Tom Selleck) is given the enviable assignment of escorting a gorgeous "fan" of Robin Masters around the writer's...
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1981
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The Man who Saw Tomorrow is none other than Michel de Nostradamus, the French doctor who lived in the 16th century but...
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1981
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Pia Zadora stars in an over-cooked melodramatic adaptation of the 1946 James M. Cain novel that is every bit as smutty and...
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Judge Rauch
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1981
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1981
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The history of anti-Semitism and the Nazi mass murder of the Jewish people. ~ Rovi...
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1981
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In this exciting adventure, five Alaskan prospectors strike it rich and end up paying a terrible price for their avarice. The...
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1981
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Mel Brooks produced, directed, wrote, and starred in this episodic comedy in the spirit of Monty Python and the 1957 studio...
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1981
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In this Gold Rush adventure, two men race their sleds and dogs across the frozen North in hopes of being the first to reach a...
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1981
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In this exciting Gold Rush adventure, the trials, tribulations and joys experienced by sourdoughs in the Canadian Yukon are...
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1981
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In this Gold Rush adventure, all the lonely, single women in Dawson City, Alaska begin pursuing the town's newest arrival--an...
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1981
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Based on the epic novel by James Clavell, Shogun originated as an epic five-part television miniseries, filmed on location in...
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1980
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The Eka Dasa Rudra is a purification festival in Bali, also known as the Eleven Powers ceremony, celebrated once every...
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Narrator
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1980
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Although first widely shown in early 1980 in New York, The Shah of Iran was completed in 1972 and is narrated by Orson...
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1980
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Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear, from of the large crew of loveably fuzzy characters created by puppetmaster Jim Henson, have...
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1979
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Alfred Hitchcock fans need not be reminded that "The McGuffin" is Hitchcock's term for the gimmicks (missing papers, stolen...
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1979
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Orson Welles narrates this profile of man's voyage to the moon using NASA footage and astronaut interviews. ~ Rovi...
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1979
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Nikola Tesla (here played by Petar Bozovic) was a famous 19th century Yugoslavian inventor. The film recounts Tesla's...
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J.P. Morgan
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1979
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The American prints of Battle Force credit the direction to one Humphrey Longan, but in fact the man behind the megaphone of...
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1978
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This documentary, narrated by Orson Welles, tells the story of the world's youngest and best-known pharaoh: King Tut. Fame...
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1978
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Orson Welles serves as narrator for this interpretation of the end of the world as pictured by Hal Lindsey. The apocalyptic...
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Narrator
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1978
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The made-for-TV A Woman Called Moses stars Cicely Tyson as real-life escaped slave Harriet Tubman. A the risk of recapture,...
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Narrator
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1978
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1977
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1977
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1977
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Martin Brest was a student filmmaker when he made Hot Tomorrows for $33,000 -- practically nothing even by the standards of...
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1977
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Narrator
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1977
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The American Film Institute put together this movie of film clips from all eras of American filmmaking as a Bicentennial...
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1976
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In this documentary film, American modern art is juxtaposed with the European modern art movement. Works surveyed include...
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1976
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Often described as "Ship of Fools with a conscience," Voyage of the Damned is based on a true story. In 1939, the Nazis...
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Estedes
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1976
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Rikki-Tikki-Tavi was one of several animated TV specials based on the works of Rudyard Kipling, and produced and directed by...
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1975
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An Italian-French-Spanish version of the much-filmed Agatha Christie story, this film is strangely set in Iran, not Great...
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1975
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1975
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Comprised of nine of Bugs Bunny's most popular shorts--combined with interviews with those who created and brought the...
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Narrator
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1975
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The American Film Institute Life Achievement Awards: Orson Welles gathers close to a dozen stars, including Charlton Heston,...
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1975
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1974
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1973
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The final directorial project the legendary Orson Welles completed during his lifetime, F for Fake is less a documentary than...
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Director, Screenwriter, Himself
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1973
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Who's Out There? documents the growth of the space program in America. The program showcases numerous advancements made by...
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1973
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This Yugoslavian epic depicts the World War II military exploits of Marshall Tito (played here by Richard Burton), who later...
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Screenwriter
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1973
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The story centers on a sailor who returns to shore to discover that his uncle has been capturing dying Greek gods and sewing...
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Cassavius
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1972
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1972
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In this comedy, young Donald Beeman (Tom Smothers) becomes disillusioned with his business career and quits to become a...
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1972
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A wicked necromancer controls an entire town, forcing its residents to make the special "toys" he needs to cast his evil...
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1972
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This 1972 international production of Treasure Island is one of many film versions of the classic adventure by Robert Louis...
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Screenwriter, Long John Silver
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1972
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In this ponderous French mystery-drama, based on an Ellery Queen story, blackmail would seem to be the least of the problems...
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Theo
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1971
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The Enemy Before Us stars Tony Franciosca as Crime magazine reporter Jeff Dillon. Back in his old neighborhood in New York's...
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1971
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This documentary profiles the great American filmmaker John Ford (1895-1973). Among the films he directed were The Young...
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1971
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Available in either English or Spanish, this film reviews Teotihuacan, Uxmal and Chichen Itza as well as four other...
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Narrator (English)
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1971
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A Safe Place, writer/director Henry Jaglom's feature film debut, is a time-fractured, hallucinatory fantasy, featuring...
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Magician
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1971
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This lavishly costumed historical epic had an estimated $100 million price tag. Spectacularly photographed battle action...
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Louis XVIII
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1970
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When American agents in Moscow try to recover a stolen letter implicating America in an anti-Red China plot, they discover a...
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1970
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Two French peasants are mistaken for a pair of aristocratic nobles in this historical situation comedy. Gene Wilder and...
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1970
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The tragic Sharon Tate plays a crucial role (her last-ever appearance before the cameras) in 12 Plus 1 (aka The Thirteen...
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Markau
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1970
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Orson Welles narrates this moving video about the splendid racehorse, Nijinsky. ~ Rovi...
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Narrator
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1970
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This colorful documentary covers the history of the Basilica in the Cathedral of St. Peters in Vatican City. Ralph...
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Michaelangelo
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1970
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Director Mike Nichols and writer-actor Buck Henry followed their enormous hit The Graduate (1967) with this timely adaptation...
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1970
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Originally released as The Battle of the Neretva, this sprawling epic is a tribute to the Yugoslav partisan fighters of World...
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Senator
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1969
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The Mexican Revolution binds together the lives of a group of men. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1969
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Originally produced for a French television audience, this portrait of the surrealist artist Salvador Dali details the...
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1969
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Justinian
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1969
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In this comic adventure, an impoverished Yankee geologist and his cohorts band together with a group of fortune hunters to...
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Plankett
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1969
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Narrator
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1968
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Reno Davis (George Peppard) is an American writer who has retired from the gentle art of boxing. Now wandering through...
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Leschenhaut
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1968
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The classic Greek tragedy by Sophocles stars Christopher Plummer as the psychologically tortured Oedipus. The successful...
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Tiresias
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1968
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This 99-minute film constitutes the first half of Robert Siodmak's mammoth two-part epic Der Kampf um Rom (Fight for Rome)....
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Justinian
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1968
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1968
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Immortal Story was directed by Orson Welles, who also stars as a fabulously wealthy, but bitter and dictatorial, European...
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Director, Screenwriter, Mr. Clay
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1968
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This video profiles the life and work of Orson Wells including film excerpts and photographs of the director. ~ Rovi...
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1967
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The imprisoning aspects of Success are humorously analyzed in this British-made film. Oliver Reed plays a wealthy advertising...
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Jonathan Lute
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1967
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This documentary video looks at the events and circumstances surrounding the Duke of Windsor's abdication to marry a...
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1967
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1967
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Retired after years of international espionage, Agent 007 is lured back into action to battle the evil spy organization...
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Le Chiffre
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1967
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This exploration documentary follows Norman Dyhrenfurth as he takes his expedition to the top of Mt. Everest over the...
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1967
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In 1944, with Paris on the verge of Liberation by the allies, Adolph Hitler ordered that the City of Light be blown up and...
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1966
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Cardinal Wolsey
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1966
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The legendary Shakespearean character Sir John Falstaff, the notoriously drunken, obese, and yet charming companion of the...
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Director, Screenwriter, Sir John (Jack) Falstaff
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1966
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Co-directed by French filmmakers Noël Howard and Denys de La Patellière, La Fabuleuse aventure de Marco Polo is a...
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1965
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Narrated by Academy Award winner Orson Welles, Churchill: The Finest Hours is an historical overview of the life and career...
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1964
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Much of Orson Welles' latter-day reputation as an "unfathomable" genius rests upon his seeming unwillingness to tell a story...
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Director, Editor, Screenwriter
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1963
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1963
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1963
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Terrence Rattigan, the playwright who brought us the multicharactered, multistoried Separate Tables, again offers us an...
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1963
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The story of a Frenchman who fought to liberate the American colonies from British rule is colorfully brought to the screen....
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1962
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Burandai
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1961
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One major film star referred to director Nicholas Ray as a "loser," because of Ray's alleged willingness to let his more...
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1961
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In what must be the longest lapse of time between a film and its sequel, 70-year-old Abel Gance continues his nearly...
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1960
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Very loosely based on its Biblical source, this standard Italian sword-and-sandal action film stars Orson Welles as an...
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King Saul
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1960
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At the outset of the decade that witnessed the production of his revolutionary documentaries Warrendale and A Married...
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1960
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Three stars appear in two separate but intertwined stories of romantic triangles gone wrong in this ambitious drama. In the...
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Hagolin@Lamorciero
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1960
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Compulsion is a compelling, stylish thriller, loosely based on the famous 1924 murder trial of thrill-killers Loeb and...
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Jonathan Wilk
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1959
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Capt. Hart
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1959
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This baroque nightmare of a south-of-the-border mystery is considered to be one of the great movies of Orson Welles, who both...
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Director, Screenwriter, Hank Quinlan
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1958
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While often regarded as one of America's greatest novelists, William Faulkner produced work that did not always translate...
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Will Varner
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1958
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Inspired by the novel The Viking by Edison Marshall, The Vikings was lensed on location in Norway under extremely adverse...
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1958
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Romain Gary's best-selling novel The Roots of Heaven was adapted to film in Cinemascope and DeLuxe Color by producer...
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Cy Sedgewick
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1958
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South Seas Adventure was the 5th in a series of feature-length documentaries designed to show off the wide-screen,...
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Narrator
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1958
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Virgil Renchler
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1957
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1957
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1956
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Previous film versions of Moby Dick insisted upon including such imbecilities as romantic subplots and happy endings. John...
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Father Mapple
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1956
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When Orson Welles was signed to produce and direct films at RKO Radio Pictures in 1939, he'd wanted to cast Lucille Ball in...
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Himself
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1956
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Showing no signs of slowing down in his 70th year, Sacha Guitry served as director and writer of the lavish historical epic...
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1955
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Also known as Mr. Arkadin, this flawed late effort by director Orson Welles recalls the structure of Citizen Kane, centering...
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Art Director, Costume Designer, Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter, Gregory Arkadin
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1955
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The British omnibus thriller, Three Cases of Murder includes two supernatural tales and a straight whodunit. The first...
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1955
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In 1955, Orson Welles prepared a series of six travel documentaries for British television under the title Around the World...
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Director
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1955
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Sacha Guitry's Si Versailles M'Etait Conte (If Versailles Were Told to Me) is best known by its American title Royal Affairs...
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1954
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Trouble in the Glen was one of several felicitous collaborations between Hollywood's Republic Pictures and England's Herbert...
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Sanin Cejadory Mengues
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1954
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One of the first important distinctions to be made about this version of King Lear is that it is not the same version...
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King Lear
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1953
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Orson Welles provides the voice of God in this farce starring Fernandel as Don Camillo, a vicar who causes trouble for the...
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1952
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Sigsbee Manderson
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1952
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1952
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Othello
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1952
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Partly conceived as a follow-up to Prince of Foxes, 20th Century-Fox's The Black Rose, reunites the earlier film's two stars,...
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Bayan
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1950
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In this Cold War spy classic, Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten), a third-rate American pulp novelist, arrives in postwar Vienna,...
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Harry Lime
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1949
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Cagliostro
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1949
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Filmed entirely on location in Italy, Prince of Foxes is an adaptation of Samuel Shellabarger's popular novel. Set during the...
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Cesare Borgia
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1949
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The Lady From Shanghai, a complex, involving puzzle-within-a-puzzle mystery story, is a showcase for Orson Welles, showing...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Michael O'Hara
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1948
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Shakespeare's tragic tale of the rise and fall of ambitious 12th-century Scottish warrior MacBeth has proven irresistible to...
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Costume Designer, Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Macbeth
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1948
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"Von Clausewitz said that war is the logical extension of diplomacy; Monsieur Verdoux feels that murder is the logical...
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From Idea By
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1947
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The Stranger is often considered Orson Welles' most "traditional" Hollywood-style directorial effort. Welles plays a college...
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Director, Screenwriter, Franz Kindler/Prof. Charles Rankin
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1946
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1946
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Elizabeth MacDonald (Claudette Colbert) is a newly married corporate librarian in 1918 Baltimore working for a chemical...
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John MacDonald/Erich Kessler
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1946
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Paramount Pictures did their patriotic duty with this World War II era musical, with a number of the studio's biggest stars...
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1944
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Edward Rochester
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1944
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1943
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Orson Welles had planned to produce, direct and star in RKO's Journey Into Fear, but prior commitments compelled him to...
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Producer, Screenwriter, Col. Haki
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1942
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Orson Welles' followup to Citizen Kane (1941) was utterly different from Kane in style and texture, but just as brilliant in...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1942
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Orson Welles first feature film -- which he directed, produced, and co-wrote, as well as playing the title role -- proved to...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Charles Foster Kane
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1941
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Johan David Wyss' novel Swiss Family Robinson had been in print for nearly fifty years before the first film version was made...
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1940
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1938
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1934
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