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Actors: Orson Welles
Actors: Peter Bogdanovich, Orson Welles, Steven Spielberg, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Oja Kodar
Synopsis: Croatian father-and-son filmmakers Jakov and Dominik Sedlar explore the genius of Citizen Kane director Orson Welles through the examination of lost footage from unfinished projects and interviews with the friends, family, and colleagues who knew him best in this documentary, which delves deeper Read More
Actors: Harry Carey, Jr., Henry Fonda, Clint Eastwood, Walter Hill, Martin Scorsese
Synopsis: Acclaimed director Peter Bogdanovich updates his 1971 documentary Directed by John Ford for this film of the same name, produced for the Turner Classic Movies cable network. Using old interviews with the likes of John Wayne and Henry Fonda along with new ones with modern film giants like Steven Spielberg Read More
Synopsis: Mind City Productions presents a spine-tingling adaptation of Orson Welles' tale concerning a man driven to the edge of sanity during a cross country trip in this animated effort that draws on the 1930s-era radio drama that originally aired on "The Mercury Theater on the Air." ~ Jason Buchanan Read More
Crew: From Screenplay by
Actors: Madeleine Stowe, Bruce Greenwood, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Gretchen Mol, Jennifer Tilly
Synopsis: This lavish, cable-TV remake of Orson Welles' The Magnficent Ambersons endeavored to prove Welles right by adhering to his original screenplay, restoring several scenes which provided additional substance and significance to the story and deepened the characterizations. Set in Indianapolis at the Read More
Synopsis: When Hal Lindsey's book The Late Great Planet Earth was first published in the early '70s, Christians and many others combed its contents for clues to ancient prophecies, currently unfolding events, and future possibilities. Narrated by actor Orson Welles, this film explores many of the Biblical Read More
Crew: Director
Synopsis: Planned as an episode of his mid-'50s television series Around the World With Orson Welles, The Dominici Affair proves that Orson Welles was just as innovative a television director as he was a filmmaker and radio artist. Welles left the film unfinished, leaving only a rough cut in a vault in Read More
Crew: Director, Screenwriter
Actors: Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff
Synopsis: This baroque nightmare of a south-of-the-border mystery is considered to be one of the great movies of Orson Welles, who both directed and starred in it. On honeymoon with his new bride, Susan (Janet Leigh), Mexican-born policeman Mike Vargas (Charlton Heston) agrees to investigate a bomb Read More
Crew: Short Story Author
Actors: Malcolm McDowell
Synopsis: The second volume in a series of videos collecting great short films, this program includes La Jetee, Chris Marker's poetic science fiction story that inspired Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys; A Girl's Own Story, a poignant look at adolescence from director Jane Campion that's paired with a documentary Read More
Actors: Richard Dreyfuss
Synopsis: Utilizing archival footage, personal interviews and film clips, This compilation film, recounts the colorful history of and pays tribute to one of Hollywood's most enduring studios, Universal Studios. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: In 1994, the British Film Institute commissioned a set of films to mark the centenary of the movies. They would trace the history of several national cinemas, and the BFI's choice for interpreting the history of American film fell to director Martin Scorsese, a longtime champion of film history Read More
Synopsis: Henry Jaglom is a filmmaker who was a pioneer of the independent film movement long before it had a name. Jaglom began his Hollywood career in the mid-Sixties as an actor, but in 1971 he wrote and directed his first feature film, A Safe Place, which starred his friends Orson Welles and Jack Read More
Synopsis: Both a documentary and a unique exercise in film restoration, It's All True tells the complex story of Orson Welles' ill-fated attempts to make an anthology film about the life and culture of South America and concludes with a reconstruction of one of Welles' unfinished segments, edited together Read More
Actors: Francisco Reiguera, Akim Tamiroff, Orson Welles
Synopsis: Over the course of his lifetime, the legendary director Orson Welles (1915-1985) was forced to leave many of his grander movie-making projects unfinished, generally for want of sustained financial backing. Each successive unfinished effort generated buzz throughout the worshipful film community Read More
Synopsis: Available in either English or Spanish, this film reviews Teotihuacan, Uxmal and Chichen Itza as well as four other historical ruins. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, Peter Bogdanovich, D.W. Griffith, Erich Von Stroheim
Synopsis: This documentary respectfully interviews a number of important American directors who have in one way or another "bucked the system." It also explores the life and work of earlier American mavericks through the tributes, reflections, and recollections of the first group. Prominent among the living Read More
Synopsis: Review the history of the native population of Mexico. View the ruins of magnificent cities from a helicopter. Orson Welles narrates the English language version. Ricardo Montalban narrates the Spanish version. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: Orson Welles narrates this moving video about the splendid racehorse, Nijinsky. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Orson Welles, Henry Jaglom, Andrea Marcovicci, Michael Emil, Sally Kellerman
Synopsis: Orson Welles made his final screen appearance as, appropriately enough, Orson Welles (or "Danny's Friend") in Henry Jaglom's "emotional vérité" comedy Someone to Love. The film begins as filmmaker Danny (Henry Jaglom) prepares to spend the night at his girlfriend Helen (Andrea Marcovicci)'s Read More
Synopsis: A unique presentation that features six hours of Orson Welles' best radio work. This is an audio only production. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: From the personal journals of Richard Wagner comes this account of a love for the city of Canals. Includes excerpts from his operas to illustrate the influence of the city on his work. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Leonard Nimoy, Robert Stack, Judd Nelson, Eric Idle, Orson Welles
Synopsis: In this theatrically released chapter of the 1984-1987 syndicated animated series, the struggle between the heroic Autobots and evil Decepticons is taken twenty years into the future as both sides must deal with a world-devouring being called Unicron (voiced by Orson Welles). Set in 2005, The Read More
Actors: Orson Welles, Michael Murphy, Michelle Finney, Henry Ramer
Synopsis: An ex-convict turned sheriff's deputy must face his guilty conscience, which is obsessed with his identity change following a million-dollar heist. With a notoriously troubled production history, this Canadian picture was shot in 1979 and sat on the shelf for half a decade, until Orson Welles had Read More
Synopsis: In his last acting assignment before his death, Orson Welles narrates this highly unusual episode of Moonlighting. While gathering evidence for their latest case, David (Bruce Willis) and Maddie (Cybill learn of the famous Flamingo Cove Murder, a 1946 case that has never been solved. It doesn't Read More
Synopsis: The made-for-television Scene of the Crime is an anthology crime film, featuring three different short films--"The Newlywed Murder," "Medium is the Murder" and "Vote for Murder"--which is narrated by Orson Welles. At the end of each film, Welles asks the audience to solve the murder, and offers Read More
Synopsis: The titular, glowing greenstone is located somewhere in an enchanted, forbidden forest. Living on the edge of the woods, a young boy ($oseph Corey) dedicates himself to finding the magical rock. In so doing, the lad stumbles onto a wondrous, Tolkien-esque "alternate world." The special effects Read More
Actors: Meryl Streep, Dr. Helen Caldicott, Benjamin Spock
Synopsis: This compilation documentary covers the massive anti-nuclear peace march held in New York City on June 12, 1982, including the preparations that led up to the march and interviews with concerned and knowledgeable people on the issue of peace, as well as Japanese survivors of the atomic bomb Read More
Synopsis: Magnum (Tom Selleck) is simultaneously solicited by Higgins ($John Hillerman}) and Robin Masters (still unseen, but voiced by Orson Welles) to help them with a pair of delicate and potentially damaging cases. Higgins is being blackmailed for helping a woman with an illegitimate son, while one of Read More
Actors: Orson Welles, Henri Behar
Synopsis: Filmed in 1982, just three years before he died, this long interview with Orson Welles highlights the famous writer/director/actor's views on movie-making, elicited by questions from director Pierre-André Boutang. Although the translation from French to English and back again may be a bit awkward Read More
Synopsis: An educational video as the crew of the Calypso takes you down the Amazon River to examine how the transportation of cocaine occurs and the second covers the unique beauty of this mighty river. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Tony Curtis, Cassandra Domenica, Erik Estrada, Peter Lawford, Ron Moody
Synopsis: Where Is Parsifal? -- he (Tony Curtis) is in a castle surrounded by nutcakes, himself a hypochondriac who has invented a laser skywriter and wants to sell the patent for his invention to millionaire Henry Board II (Erik Estrada) or to wealthy gypsy Klingsor (Orson Welles). The castle crew are in a Read More
Synopsis: An adventurous chipmunk sets out on a perilous journey to join his fellow chipmunks in nature and find his destiny in this animated tale of adventure featuring the voices of Orson Welles and Jim Backus. Enthralled with tales of the Great North Forest conveyed to him by friendly carrier pigeon Read More
Crew: Consultant/advisor
Actors: Karen Black, Michael Emil, Michael Margotta, Frances Fisher
Synopsis: After a man (Michael Emil) and a woman (Karen Black) meet and begin to become romantically involved, his confirmed bachelorhood and her post-divorce trauma start to clash. As their interactions become more complex, and they move from one scenario to the next, they begin to learn more about one Read More
Synopsis: The guests at Robin Master's Spring Equinox party find themselves trapped on the estate by a raging typhoon. Unfortunately, among the revellers are a number of uninivited guests, including a pair of gun-wielding escaped convicts, a pregnant woman about to go into labor, and a person whose mission Read More
Synopsis: An informative program that offers a lesson in justice when a man is convicted of murder. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Herschel Bernardi, Joseph Green, Zvee Scooler, Seymour Rechtzeit
Synopsis: In this look at Yiddish filmmaking and its changing perspectives during the era of the early sound pictures (1930s), director Russ Karel uses film clips taken from the archives of the National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, and he also illustrates his Read More
Synopsis: In this exciting adventure, five Alaskan prospectors strike it rich and end up paying a terrible price for their avarice. The tale is taken from a story by Jack London. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: In this Gold Rush adventure, all the lonely, single women in Dawson City, Alaska begin pursuing the town's newest arrival--an eligible bachelor. The tale is taken from a Jack London story. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: In this exciting Gold Rush adventure, the trials, tribulations and joys experienced by sourdoughs in the Canadian Yukon are chronicled. The tale is taken from a Jack London story. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: 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 parcel of land filled with gold. The tale is based on a Jack London story. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: This is an adaptation of a Jack London story about a young man who is considered the most desirable bachelor in town. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Jerry Lewis, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, John Abbott, Jim Backus
Synopsis: This dismal sci-fi comedy is based on a novel by Kurt Vonnegut and features Jerry Lewis and Madeline Kahn in dual roles as wealthy, respected parents who give birth to two gigantic, and ugly twins. The appalled parents try to keep them hidden away for they do not know that their "children" are Read More
Synopsis: Thrill to the action of a dogsled race featuring the prize of 1 million dollars in gold in this "Jack London's Tales of the Klondike" series. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Stacy Keach, Pia Zadora, Orson Welles, Lois Nettleton, Edward Albert
Synopsis: Pia Zadora stars in an over-cooked melodramatic adaptation of the 1946 James M. Cain novel that is every bit as smutty and sleazy as Zadora's vampish character of Kady. The location of the novel has been switched from Appalachia to the barren lands of Arizona and Nevada in 1937. Stacy Keach plays Read More
Actors: Philip L. Clarke
Synopsis: The Man who Saw Tomorrow is none other than Michel de Nostradamus, the French doctor who lived in the 16th century but supposedly saw far ahead into the 20th century and beyond. This documentary is an attempt to bring home the interpretation of some of his predictions using historical footage Read More
Synopsis: Magnum (Tom Selleck) is given the enviable assignment of escorting a gorgeous "fan" of Robin Masters around the writer's lavish estate. But he doesn't feel so lucky when, after an attempt is made on Master's life, the "fan" reveals herself to be Joy "Digger" O'Doyle (Erin Gray), a no-nonsense Read More
Actors: Mel Brooks, Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, Cloris Leachman
Synopsis: Mel Brooks produced, directed, wrote, and starred in this episodic comedy in the spirit of Monty Python and the 1957 studio travesty The Story of Mankind. The film is divided into five sequences that play like blue-toned Eddie Cantor vaudeville sketches -- "The Dawn of Man," "The Stone Age," The Read More
Synopsis: The history of anti-Semitism and the Nazi mass murder of the Jewish people. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: The Eka Dasa Rudra is a purification festival in Bali, also known as the Eleven Powers ceremony, celebrated once every century. Religion is of primary importance to the Balinese, whose beliefs are influenced by Hinduism and Buddhism. In this ancient ritual, priests seek a rebalancing of the powers Read More
Actors: John Hillerman, Tom Selleck, Larry Manetti, Roger E. Mosley
Synopsis: The first season of Magnum, P.I. opens with the two-hour pilot episode, as former Naval Intelligence officer-turned-private eye Thomas Magnum takes up residence in a guest house on the Oahu estate of mystery writer Robin Masters, for whom he has agreed to work security. But Magnum's first job is a Read More
Actors: Tom Selleck, John Hillerman, Roger E. Mosley, Larry Manetti, Gillian Dobb
Synopsis: With the cancellation of the long-running Hawaii Five-O, CBS was stuck with two valuable commodities: the series' choice Thursday-night time slot, and the series' filming facilities on the island of Oahu. The solution? Commission another Hawaii-based detective show and schedule it in the old Read More
Synopsis: Although first widely shown in early 1980 in New York, The Shah of Iran was completed in 1972 and is narrated by Orson Welles. Transparently a propaganda piece because of the laudatory statements that describe the action pictured in newsreels and archival footage, the documentary focuses on the Read More
Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Toshiro Mifune, Yoko Shimada, Frankie Sakai, Alan Badel
Synopsis: Based on the epic novel by James Clavell, Shogun originated as an epic five-part television miniseries, filmed on location in Japan. Richard Chamberlain stars as John Blackthorne, a 17th century British sea pilot in charge of a Dutch vessel. Shipwrecked off the coast of Japan, Blackthorne is in Read More
Actors: Orson Welles, Strother Martin, Dennis Patrick, Oja Kodar
Synopsis: Nikola Tesla (here played by Petar Bozovic) was a famous 19th century Yugoslavian inventor. The film recounts Tesla's development of the alternating electric current, first under the dictatorial thumb of Thomas Edison (Dennis Patrick), then on his own. Tesla develops a harmonious working Read More
Actors: Ernest Borgnine, George Kennedy, Elke Sommer, Ed "Too Tall" Jones, Lyle Alzado
Synopsis: Alfred Hitchcock fans need not be reminded that "The McGuffin" is Hitchcock's term for the gimmicks (missing papers, stolen gems, uranium deposits) that motivate the plots of his thrillers. This much is explained by narrator Orson Welles at the beginning of the family-oriented The Double McGuffin. Read More
Synopsis: Orson Welles narrates this profile of man's voyage to the moon using NASA footage and astronaut interviews. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Charles Durning, Dave Goelz
Synopsis: Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear, from of the large crew of loveably fuzzy characters created by puppetmaster Jim Henson, have embarked on a quest for stardom. They take a trip to Hollywood, riding in or on a wide variety of vehicles along the way. They begin their journey on a bicycle pedalled by Read More
Actors: Helmut Berger, Samantha Eggar, Henry Fonda
Synopsis: The American prints of Battle Force credit the direction to one Humphrey Longan, but in fact the man behind the megaphone of this European war flick was Umberto Lenzi. Orson Welles narrates this crazy-quilt of stock battle footage and hapharzardly staged new scenes. A lot of potent acting Read More
Synopsis: The made-for-TV A Woman Called Moses stars Cicely Tyson as real-life escaped slave Harriet Tubman. A the risk of recapture, Tubman helped organize the underground railroad, which enabled hundreds of enslaved African Americans to make their way to the freedom of the Northern states. Adding to the Read More
Synopsis: Orson Welles serves as narrator for this interpretation of the end of the world as pictured by Hal Lindsey. The apocalyptic vision of this movie is based on Lindsey's readings of Biblical prophetic texts, as found in his bestselling book. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: This documentary, narrated by Orson Welles, tells the story of the world's youngest and best-known pharaoh: King Tut. Fame and fortune are the legacy of Tutankhamen, who ruled Egypt while in his teens, and died in 1343 B.C. His life was shrouded in mystery until the repeated searches for his Read More
Actors: Ken Lerner, Ray Sharkey, Herve Villechaize, Victor Argo, George Memmoli
Synopsis: Martin Brest was a student filmmaker when he made Hot Tomorrows for $33,000 -- practically nothing even by the standards of 1977. He went on to produce major Hollywood movies, including Beverly Hills Cop. In this film, Michael (Ken Lerner) is a young New York writer who has moved to L.A. and who Read More