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Orson Welles y Goya

Actors: Orson Welles

Searching for Orson

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

Directed by John Ford

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

The Other Side of Welles

Synopsis: The "Welles" in question, of course, is Hollywood maestro Orson Welles, and the "other side" refers to his personal life. Though not commonly recognized, during his later years Welles spent a great deal of time in Yugoslavia, where he acted in such productions as David & Goliath and directed the Read More

The Hitch Hiker

Actors: Orson Welles

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

The Peter Sellers Story: As He Filmed It

The Magnificent Ambersons

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

Orson Welles En El Pais De Don Quijote

Synopsis: Orson Welles had a great love for Spain; he often worked there, had an estate in Madrid, and his remains are buried in Andalucia. Filmmakers and journalists Carlos F. Heredero and Esteve Riambau set out to trace the story of Welles' involvement in Spain, and Orson Welles En El Pais De Don Quijote Read More

Orson Welles on Film

The Dominici Affair

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

Secrets of the Millennium: Ancient Prophecies

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

Touch of Evil

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

Short 2: Dreams

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

The Universal Story

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

In the Beginning: Revised Version - The Creation

In the Beginning: Revised Version - Acts of Faith

In the Beginning: Revised Version - The Roots of Israel

In the Beginning: King James Version - The Roots of Israel

In the Beginning: King James Version - The Creation

Orson Welles: The One-Man Band

Synopsis: This fascinating documentary is almost completely comprised of scenes from Welles' uncompleted films, most of which have never been seen by the public. Though directed by German filmmaker Vassili Silovic, the clips and information were largely provided by Welles' closest associate and long-time Read More

In the Beginning: King James Version - Acts of Faith

Who is Henry Jaglom?

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

A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese through American Movies

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

Working with Orson Welles

Synopsis: It is rumored that Orson Welles spent the last 25 years doing little more than wine commercials and appearing on the Johnny Carson Show. Working With Orson Welles disproves that. It's a documentary done by Welles' cameraman Gary Graver that focuses on the last 15 years of the great director's Read More

It's All True

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

Filmmaking: Orson Welles in Italy - Rosabella (Rosebud)

Don Quixote de Orson Welles

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

Hollywood Mavericks

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

Someone to Love

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

Theatre of the Imagination: Radio Stories By Orson Welles and The Mercury Theatre

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

The Transformers: The Movie

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

Hot Money

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

Scene of the Crime

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

Moonlighting: The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice

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

The Greenstone

Synopsis: The titular, glowing greenstone is located somewhere in an enchanted, forbidden forest. Living on the edge of the woods, a young boy (Joseph 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

Orson Welles a la Cinémathéque

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

The Enchanted Journey

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

Magnum, P.I.: Luther Gills - File #001

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

Cousteau: Amazon - Snowstorm in the Jungle and Rigging for the Amazon

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

In Our Hands

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

The Last Sailors

Where Is Parsifal?

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

Almonds and Raisins: A History of the Yiddish Cinema

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

Magnum, P.I.: The Big Blow

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

Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?

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

Slapstick of Another Kind

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

Wagner and Venice

Actors: Orson Welles

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

Tales of the Klondike: The Unexpected

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

Magnum, P.I.: J. "Digger" Doyal

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

Tales of the Klondike: The Scorn of Women

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

Butterfly

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

Tales of the Klondike: Race for Number One

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

Tales of the Klondike: In a Far Country

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

Search for the Titanic

History of the World -- Part I

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

The Man Who Saw Tomorrow

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

Genocide

Synopsis: The history of anti-Semitism and the Nazi mass murder of the Jewish people. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Shah of Iran

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

Shogun

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

The Eleven Powers

Actors: Orson Welles

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

The Muppet Movie

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

The Double McGuffin

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

The Secret of Nikola Tesla

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

Greatest Adventure: Story of Man's Voyage to the Moon

Synopsis: Orson Welles narrates this profile of man's voyage to the moon using NASA footage and astronaut interviews. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Il Grande Attaco

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 talent Read More

A Woman Called Moses

Actors: Orson Welles

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

The Late Great Planet Earth

Actors: Orson Welles

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

Tut: The Boy King

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

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Actors: Orson Welles

Lions of Capitalism: Great American Millionaires

The World of Franklin and Jefferson

It Happened One Christmas

Synopsis: Marlo Thomas' first mistake was optioning the classic It's a Wonderful Life for this TV remake; her second was starring in it herself in the Jimmy Stewart part! This gender switch aside, It Happened One Christmas follows the original virtually to the letter. Thomas is a young woman who dreams of Read More

Hot Tomorrows

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

The Challenge of Greatness

Synopsis: In this documentary film, American modern art is juxtaposed with the European modern art movement. Works surveyed include Chagall, Braque, Bacon, Moore and Picasso. Narrated by Orson Wells. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

America at the Movies

Actors: Charlton Heston

Synopsis: The American Film Institute put together this movie of film clips from all eras of American filmmaking as a Bicentennial tribute to the country. Narrated by Charleton Heston, the 83 film clips included all relate to American history, or reflect on the character of Americans. The clips are grouped Read More

Voyage of the Damned

Actors: Faye Dunaway, Max von Sydow, Oskar Werner, Malcolm McDowell, Orson Welles

Synopsis: Often described as "Ship of Fools with a conscience," Voyage of the Damned is based on a true story. In 1939, the Nazis ostentatiously loaded a luxury liner with hundred of Jewish refugees from all walks of life. The ship then tried to drop anchor in Havana, Cuba-only to have its passengers Read More

Inspiration of Mr. Budd

And Then There Were None

Actors: Oliver Reed, Elke Sommer, Richard Attenborough, Gert Fröbe, Stéphane Audran

Synopsis: An Italian-French-Spanish version of the much-filmed Agatha Christie story, this film is strangely set in Iran, not Great Britain. Ten guests are invited to a remote desert inn and informed that the mysterious host has described in a nursery rhyme how they will all die during the gathering. One by Read More

Bugs Bunny Superstar

Actors: Orson Welles

Synopsis: Comprised of nine of Bugs Bunny's most popular shorts--combined with interviews with those who created and brought the "wascally wabbit" to life, this video is guaranteed to delight. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards: Orson Welles

Synopsis: The American Film Institute Life Achievement Awards: Orson Welles gathers close to a dozen stars, including Charlton Heston, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Carson, Ingrid Bergman, Robert Wagner, Natalie Wood, Janet Leigh, Joseph Cotten and Dennis Weaver, plus some other luminaries in the audience, to give Read More

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

Synopsis: Rikki-Tikki-Tavi was one of several animated TV specials based on the works of Rudyard Kipling, and produced and directed by Chuck Jones. The title character is a courageous mongoose, the unofficial pet of a British family living in India. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi has appointed himself protector of the Read More

The Challenge...A Tribute to Modern Art

Sutjeska

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Burton

Synopsis: This Yugoslavian epic depicts the World War II military exploits of Marshall Tito (played here by Richard Burton), who later became the unrivalled ruler of that troubled country. During that war, he was instrumental in resisting Nazi efforts to exterminate the Yugoslav partisans. The film details Read More

Parables for the Present

Actors: Orson Welles

Who's Out There?

Synopsis: Who's Out There? documents the growth of the space program in America. The program showcases numerous advancements made by NASA, including attempts to discover any other intelligent life forms in outer space. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

F for Fake

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Joseph Cotten, François Reichenbach

Synopsis: The final directorial project the legendary Orson Welles completed during his lifetime, F for Fake is less a documentary than an example of cinematic free association on the topic of trickery. Much of the film is in fact drawn from other sources, most notably an unfinished documentary by Francois Reichenbach Read More

Treasure Island

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Walter Slezak, Lionel Stander, Orson Welles, Kim Burfield

Synopsis: This 1972 international production of Treasure Island is one of many film versions of the classic adventure by Robert Louis Stevenson. Kim Burfield plays Jim Hawkins, a young man who works at a pub with his mother (Maria Rohm). When drunken old sailor Billy Bones (Lionel Stander) comes in for a Read More

The Witching

Synopsis: A wicked necromancer controls an entire town, forcing its residents to make the special "toys" he needs to cast his evil spells. This horror outing follows what happens when the dastardly wizard, hoping to revivify his dead son by stealing the soul of another, sets his sights on the wife of his Read More

Get to Know Your Rabbit

Actors: Tom Smothers

Synopsis: In this comedy, young Donald Beeman (Tom Smothers) becomes disillusioned with his business career and quits to become a tap-dancing magician. However, the grass isn't always greener, and Donald soon discovers that the money-oriented aspects of his former career are starting to creep into his new Read More

Malpertuis

Actors: Mathieu Carrière, Orson Welles

Synopsis: The story centers on a sailor who returns to shore to discover that his uncle has been capturing dying Greek gods and sewing them into human flesh. He then holds them hostage on an Ionian isle. Trouble ensues when the sailor falls in love with the Gorgon. Unfortunately, she turns him into stone. Read More

Future Shock

Ten Days' Wonder

Actors: Orson Welles, Anthony Perkins, Marlène Jobert, Michel Piccoli, Guido Alberti

Synopsis: In this ponderous French mystery-drama, based on an Ellery Queen story, blackmail would seem to be the least of the problems of Charles (Anthony Perkins). His adoptive father Theo (Orson Welles) has a madwoman for a mother, and a gorgeous woman of Charles' age (Marlene Jobert) for a wife. In fact Read More

The Enemy Before Us

Synopsis: The Enemy Before Us stars Tony Franciosca as Crime magazine reporter Jeff Dillon. Back in his old neighborhood in New York's "Little Italy", Dillon hopes to take a break from his hectic responsibilities and recapture "something real" from his younger days. Unfortunately, he is bombarded by Read More

Sentinels of Silence

Actors: Orson Welles, Ricardo Montalban

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

Directed by John Ford

Actors: Henry Fonda, John Ford, John Wayne

Synopsis: This documentary profiles the great American filmmaker John Ford (1895-1973). Among the films he directed were The Young Lincoln, Stagecoach, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and The Grapes of Wrath. Ford's work was distinguished by its great emotional clarity, which some see as sentimentality Read More

A Safe Place

Actors: Rhonda Alfaro, Sylvia Zapp, Tuesday Weld, Orson Welles, Jack Nicholson, Philip Proctor, Gwen Welles

Synopsis: A Safe Place, writer/director Henry Jaglom's feature film debut, is a time-fractured, hallucinatory fantasy, featuring Tuesday Weld as a lonely and confused woman named, at times, Susan and at other times Noah, who comments that "Tomorrow is where the past is." Too delicately ethereal to cope with Read More

Waterloo

Actors: Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins, Virginia McKenna

Synopsis:
This lavishly costumed historical epic had an estimated $100 million price tag. Spectacularly photographed battle action contrasts with often plodding individual scenes that bog down the plot. Fearing his growing power, European monarchs force Napoleon Bonaparte (Rod Steiger) to abdicate as Read More

Upon This Rock

Actors: Orson Welles, Edith Evans, Dirk Bogarde, Ralph Richardson

Synopsis: This colorful documentary covers the history of the Basilica in the Cathedral of St. Peters in Vatican City. Ralph Richardson is the eloquent tour guide, with Orson Welles portraying Michaelangelo and Edith Evans plays Queen Christian, the Swedish monarch who left the country to join the religion Read More

Start the Revolution Without Me

Actors: Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland, Hugh Griffith, Billie Whitelaw

Synopsis: Two French peasants are mistaken for a pair of aristocratic nobles in this historical situation comedy. Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland play the dual roles. Happy to be taken for nobles, the pair soon runs to escape the guillotine in the wake of the French Revolution's blood purge of the upper Read More

A Horse Called Nijinsky

Actors: Orson Welles

Synopsis: Orson Welles narrates this moving video about the splendid racehorse, Nijinsky. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Kremlin Letter

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Richard Boone, Nigel Green, Dean Jagger, Lila Kedrova

Synopsis: When American agents in Moscow try to recover a stolen letter implicating America in an anti-Red China plot, they discover a hornet's nest of treason, double agents, murder, and betrayal. The plot has as many switchbacks as a Formula One racetrack, and a pad and paper to keep track of the agents Read More

Catch-22

Actors: Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin, Art Garfunkel, Jack Gilford, Jon Voight

Synopsis: Director Mike Nichols and writer-actor Buck Henry followed their enormous hit The Graduate (1967) with this timely adaptation of Joseph Heller's satiric antiwar novel. Haunted by the death of a young gunner, all-too-sane Capt. Yossarian (Alan Arkin) wants out of the rest of his WW II bombing Read More

12 Plus 1

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Sharon Tate, Orson Welles, Vittorio De Sica, Mylène Demongeot

Synopsis: The tragic Sharon Tate plays a crucial role (her last-ever appearance before the cameras) in 12 Plus 1 (aka The Thirteen Chairs). If the plot sounds familiar, it is because it's based on a popular Russian novel, also filmed in 1945 as It's In the Bag and in 1971 as The Twelve Chairs. Vittorio Gassman Read More

Bitka na Neretvi

Actors: Yul Brynner, Hardy Kruger, Franco Nero, Orson Welles

Synopsis: Originally released as The Battle of the Neretva, this sprawling epic is a tribute to the Yugoslav partisan fighters of World War II. Yul Brynner stars as a guerilla leader whose mission in life is to eradicate all Nazis from his homeland (recently revealed instances of Yugoslav collaboration are Read More

Blood and Guns

Synopsis: The Mexican Revolution binds together the lives of a group of men. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Der Kampf um rom II: Der Verrat

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Orson Welles, Sylva Koscina, Honor Blackman

Salvador Dali: A Soft Self-Portrait

Synopsis: Originally produced for a French television audience, this portrait of the surrealist artist Salvador Dali details the dreamlike inspiration behind many of his avant-garde creations. Set in Dali's hometown of Lligat, Spain, the artist himself takes the viewer on a tour of the creative process that Read More

L'Etoile Du Sud

Actors: George Segal, Ursula Andress, Orson Welles, Ian Hendry, Harry Andrews

Synopsis: In this comic adventure, an impoverished Yankee geologist and his cohorts band together with a group of fortune hunters to search for the priceless "Southern Star," an enormous diamond. The geologist has a double stake in the hunt as he not only hopes to earn much-needed cash, he also hopes to Read More

Der Kampf um Rom I

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Orson Welles, Sylva Koscina, Honor Blackman, Robert Hoffman

Synopsis: This 99-minute film constitutes the first half of Robert Siodmak's mammoth two-part epic Der Kampf um Rom (Fight for Rome). The film depicts the Goths' sacking of Rome in 526 AD. No expense was spared in bringing this story to the screen: for example, Siodmak utilized six companies of Rumanian Read More

House of Cards

Actors: George Peppard, Inger Stevens, Orson Welles, Keith Michell, William Job

Synopsis: Reno Davis (George Peppard) is an American writer who has retired from the gentle art of boxing. Now wandering through France, he takes a job as a tutor for the son of a wealthy widow. Anne de Villemont (Inger Stevens) employs Reno to help in the education of her son Paul (Barnaby Shaw). Reno is Read More

The Immortal Story

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Roger Coggio, Norman Eshley

Synopsis: Immortal Story was directed by Orson Welles, who also stars as a fabulously wealthy, but bitter and dictatorial, European merchant. Soured on life, Mr. Clay (Welles) decides to play games with the lives of others. He decides to make the "immortal" legend of a sailor seducing a rich man's wife come Read More

Oedipus the King

Actors: Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, Lilli Palmer, Richard Johnson, Cyril Cusack

Synopsis: The classic Greek tragedy by Sophocles stars Christopher Plummer as the psychologically tortured Oedipus. The successful monarch begins his downward slide after he discovers he has murdered his father and had children with his own mother. Oedipus is called on to avenge the death of the previous Read More

Around the World of Mike Todd

Actors: Orson Welles, Michael Todd, Sr., Elizabeth Taylor, Gypsy Rose Lee

Portrait Orson Welles

Orson Welles

Synopsis: This video profiles the life and work of Orson Wells including film excerpts and photographs of the director. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Americans on Everest

Synopsis: This exploration documentary follows Norman Dyhrenfurth as he takes his expedition to the top of Mt. Everest over the untried West Ridge. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

A King's Story: The Love Story of the Century

Synopsis: This documentary video looks at the events and circumstances surrounding the Duke of Windsor's abdication to marry a commoner. This program is narrated by Orson Wells. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

I'll Never Forget What's 'is Name

Actors: Orson Welles, Oliver Reed, Carol White, Harry Andrews, Michael Hordern

Synopsis: The imprisoning aspects of Success are humorously analyzed in this British-made film. Oliver Reed plays a wealthy advertising man who feels he has sold his soul and wishes to return to his happier earlier existence as a poor but swinging Londoner. Reed is goaded on by his boss, Orson Welles, who Read More

Casino Royale

Actors: Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, David Niven, Orson Welles, Woody Allen, Joanna Pettet

Synopsis: Retired after years of international espionage, Agent 007 is lured back into action to battle the evil spy organization SMERSH in this notoriously incoherent parody of the James Bond films. David Niven portrays the aging Bond, who atypically rejects the advances of a variety of women, and agrees Read More

Chimes at Midnight

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Orson Welles, John Gielgud, Jeanne Moreau, Norman Rodway, Keith Baxter

Synopsis: The legendary Shakespearean character Sir John Falstaff, the notoriously drunken, obese, and yet charming companion of the young Henry V, steps up from supporting character in several plays to the central focus of Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight, considered by many critics the best of the Read More

The Sailor from Gibraltar

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Ian Bannen, Vanessa Redgrave, Hugh Griffith

Synopsis: Playwright Christopher Isherwood and co-writer/director Tony Richardson adapted the novel by Marguerite Duras into this romantic drama. Jeanne Moreau plays Anna, a Frenchwoman of means who experienced fleeting true love with a sailor many years before. In the interim, her husband killed himself Read More

Is Paris Burning?

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron, George Chakiris, Gert Fröbe, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Perkins, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret

Synopsis: In 1944, with Paris on the verge of Liberation by the allies, Adolph Hitler ordered that the City of Light be blown up and burned to the ground. General Dietrich Von Choltitz, after much rumination, decided that he didn't want to go down in history as the man who destroyed Paris. His refusal to Read More

A Man for All Seasons

Actors: Vanessa Redgrave, Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern, Robert Shaw, Orson Welles, Susannah York

Synopsis: Adapted by Robert Bolt and Constance Willis from Bolt's hit stage play, A Man for All Seasons stars Paul Scofield, triumphantly repeating his stage role as Sir Thomas More. The crux of the film is the staunchly Catholic More's refusal to acknowledge King Henry VIII (Robert Shaw)'s break from the Read More

Le Meravigliose Avventure di Marco Polo

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Horst Buchholz, Elsa Martinelli, Omar Sharif, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Hossein

Synopsis: Co-directed by French filmmakers Noël Howard and Denys de La Patellière, La Fabuleuse aventure de Marco Polo is a star-studded, epic retelling of the story of the famed thirteenth-century Venitian explorer. Filmed on location in France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Egypt and Afghanistan, the film stars Read More

The Finest Hours

Actors: George Baker, Faith Brook, Patrick Wymark

Synopsis: Narrated by Academy Award winner Orson Welles, Churchill: The Finest Hours is an historical overview of the life and career of the great British leader Sir Winston Churchill. The 116-minute tribute, an Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature in 1965, uses archival film footage Read More

The Trial

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Anthony Perkins, Jeanne Moreau, Romy Schneider, Suzanne Flon, Elsa Martinelli, Akim Tamiroff

Synopsis: Much of Orson Welles' latter-day reputation as an "unfathomable" genius rests upon his seeming unwillingness to tell a story in clear, precise fashion. Sometimes, as in such films as Touch of Evil, Welles' spotty storytelling skills can be forgiven in the light of the excellent visuals. In other Read More

RoGoPaG

Actors: Alexandra Stewart, Rosanna Schiaffino, Jean-Marc Bory, Jean-Andre Fieschi, Orson Welles, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Delahaye

Synopsis: RoGoPaG is an omnibus of short films by Roberto Rossellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ugo Gregoretti and Jean- Luc Godard. Each episode is introduced by a quotation from the Bible which the episode illustrates with a fiction of contemporary life. Rossellini's film, "Illibatezza" ("Virginity"), is the Read More

The V.I.P.'s

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Louis Jourdan, Elsa Martinelli, Margaret Rutherford, Maggie Smith

Synopsis: Terrence Rattigan, the playwright who brought us the multicharactered, multistoried Separate Tables, again offers us an episodic cross-section of humanity in The V.I.P.'s. When a heavy London fog paralyzes all air traffic, the lives of several people are profoundly affected. As indicated by the Read More

Der Große Atlantik

Lafayette

Actors: Michel LeRoyer, Howard St. John, Jack Hawkins, Wolfgang Preiss, Pascale Audret

Synopsis: The story of a Frenchman who fought to liberate the American colonies from British rule is colorfully brought to the screen. Lafayette (Michel Leroyer) is an engaging young landowner who spends his time in taverns drinking and talking politics. When he ends up on the wrong side of the minister's Read More

I Tartari

Actors: Orson Welles, Victor Mature, Folco Lulli, Liana Orfei, Arnoldo Foa, Bella Cortez, Luciano Marin

Synopsis: With a setting in medieval Russia and two top film stars leading the action -- Victor Mature as Oleg and Orson Welles as Burundal -- this otherwise uninspired costume drama has its moments. The Vikings and their leader Oleg are pictured as pacifists, while the Tartars and Burundal are the real Read More

King of Kings

Actors: Jeffrey Hunter, Siobhan McKenna, Hurd Hatfield, Ron Randell, Harry Guardino, Viveca Lindfors, Rip Torn

Synopsis: One major film star referred to director Nicholas Ray as a "loser," because of Ray's alleged willingness to let his more temperamental actors walk all over him. Evidently, Ray had a very compliant and cooperative cast in King of Kings, inasmuch as the film emerged as one of the most disciplined Read More

The Battle of Austerlitz

Actors: Pierre Mondy, Rossano Brazzi, Vittorio De Sica, Claudia Cardinale, Martine Carol, Jean Marais

Synopsis: In what must be the longest lapse of time between a film and its sequel, 70-year-old Abel Gance continues his nearly legendary, 1927 historical drama Napoleon with this tale of Napoleon's life after his victories in Italy. The first half of Austerlitz delves into the private life of Napoleon Read More

David and Goliath

Actors: Eleonora Rossi-Drago, Orson Welles, Ivo Payer, Edward Hilton, Massimo Serato

Synopsis: Very loosely based on its Biblical source, this standard Italian sword-and-sandal action film stars Orson Welles as an intense, inward-turning King Saul, deteriorating at the same time that David is rising in renown. The shepherd David (Ivo Payer) is sent to the Israelite forces with supplies for Read More

Crack in the Mirror

Actors: Orson Welles, Juliette Greco, Bradford Dillman, Alexander Knox, Catherine Lacy

Synopsis: Three stars appear in two separate but intertwined stories of romantic triangles gone wrong in this ambitious drama. In the first segment, Hagolin (Orson Welles) is a loutish construction worker with an unhappy wife, Eponine (Juliette Greco). The wife becomes involved with a swarthy working man Read More

Compulsion

Actors: Orson Welles, Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, Diane Varsi, E.G. Marshall

Synopsis: Compulsion is a compelling, stylish thriller, loosely based on the famous 1924 murder trial of thrill-killers Loeb and Leopold, two homosexual students who murdered a young boy to demonstrate their intellectual superiority. Artie Straus (Bradford Dillman) is a sadistic, mother-dominated bully. Read More

Ferry to Hong Kong

Actors: Curd Jürgens, Orson Welles, Sylvia Syms, Noel Purcell

Synopsis: This curious African Queen derivation stars Curt Jurgens as Mark Conrad, an Austrian exile and Orson Welles as blustery ferry-boat captain Cecil Hart. Banned from both Hong Kong and Macao, Conrad is forced to spend his life on Hart's ferry, shuttling endlessly between the two countries and Read More

The Vikings

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Janet Leigh, James Donald, Alexander Knox

Synopsis: Inspired by the novel The Viking by Edison Marshall, The Vikings was lensed on location in Norway under extremely adverse weather conditions. Adding to the difficulty was the fact that star Kirk Douglas and director Richard Fleischer never quite found a common ground, and for years thereafter Read More

The Roots of Heaven

Actors: Errol Flynn, Juliette Greco, Trevor Howard, Eddie Albert, Orson Welles

Synopsis: Romain Gary's best-selling novel The Roots of Heaven was adapted to film in Cinemascope and DeLuxe Color by producer Darryl F. Zanuck. Though billed third, Trevor Howard plays the central character, an idealist who has gone into Africa in hopes of saving the elephants from extinction. At first Read More

The Long, Hot Summer

Actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Orson Welles, Lee Remick

Synopsis: While often regarded as one of America's greatest novelists, William Faulkner produced work that did not always translate well to the screen; it's ironically appropriate that this movie, based on several of Faulkner's short stories, is often regarded as one of the best films based on his work Read More

South Seas Adventure

Actors: Orson Welles

Synopsis: South Seas Adventure was the 5th in a series of feature-length documentaries designed to show off the wide-screen, three-projector Cinerama Process. Three writers and five directors pooled their talents for this breathtaking guided tour of the exotic South Seas. Much attention is expended upon Read More

Pay the Devil

Man in the Shadow

Actors: Jeff Chandler, Orson Welles, Colleen Miller, Ben Alexander, Barbara Lawrence

Synopsis: Man in the Shadow is a better-than-usual Albert Zugsmith production starring Jeff Chandler as the newly appointed lawman in a corrupt southwestern town. A Mexican laborer has been murdered, a crime which powerful land baron Orson Welles wants the sheriff to ignore. Chandler bucks Welles' wishes Read More

The Fountain of Youth

Crew: Director

I Love Lucy: Lucy Meets Orson Welles

Actors: Orson Welles, Ellen Corby, Lou Krugman, Jack Rice, Hazel Pierce

Synopsis: When Orson Welles was signed to produce and direct films at RKO Radio Pictures in 1939, he'd wanted to cast Lucille Ball in an adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. The studio turned Welles down, insisting that the actress "can't carry a picture." Seventeen years later, Ball was more Read More

Moby Dick

Actors: Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, Harry Andrews, Seamus Kelly, Orson Welles

Synopsis: Previous film versions of Moby Dick insisted upon including such imbecilities as romantic subplots and happy endings. John Huston's 1956 Moby Dick remains admirably faithful to its source. "Call me Ishmael" declares itinerant whaler Richard Basehart as the opening credits fade. Though slightly Read More

Napoléon

Actors: Raymond Pellegrin, Daniel Gélin, Sacha Guitry, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Michèle Morgan

Synopsis: Showing no signs of slowing down in his 70th year, Sacha Guitry served as director and writer of the lavish historical epic Napoleon, and also costarred as Talleyrand. It is now hard to assess the quality of the film, since most American prints are severely edited, and the color photography Read More

Around the World with Orson Welles

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In 1955, Orson Welles prepared a series of six travel documentaries for British television under the title Around the World with Orson Welles. While no prints survive of the series' final episode, "The Third Man Returns to Vienna," the other five installments are collected on this home video Read More

Three Cases of Murder

Actors: Alan Badel, Hugh Pryse, John Salew, Leucen MacGrath, Eddie Byrne

Synopsis: The British omnibus thriller, Three Cases of Murder includes two supernatural tales and a straight whodunit. The first segment, "The Picture," was directed by Wendy Toye, based on a short story by Roderick Wilkinson. A museum tour guide, Jarvis (Hugh Pryse), is plagued by artworks going missing Read More

Mr. Arkadin

Crew: Art Director, Costume Designer, Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Orson Welles, Michael Redgrave, Jack Watling, Patricia Medina, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Arden, Mischa Auer

Synopsis: Also known as Mr. Arkadin, this flawed late effort by director Orson Welles recalls the structure of Citizen Kane, centering around an investigation into the past of a powerful millionaire. This time around, however, the millionaire is very much alive; in fact, it is Gregory Arkadin (Welles) Read More

Si Versailles M'Etait Conté

Actors: Sacha Guitry, Jean Marais, Michel Auclair, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Georges Marchal, Jean-Louis Barrault, Claudette Colbert, Micheline Presle

Synopsis: Sacha Guitry's Si Versailles M'Etait Conte (If Versailles Were Told to Me) is best known by its American title Royal Affairs in Versailles. In addtion to writing and directed the film, Guitry reserves for himself the plum role of Louis XIV. Concentrating on the palace of Versailles over a period Read More

Trouble in the Glen

Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles, Victor McLaglen, John McCallum, Janet Barrow

Synopsis: Trouble in the Glen was one of several felicitous collaborations between Hollywood's Republic Pictures and England's Herbert Wilcox-Anna Neagle productions. Curiously, Ms. Neagle does not appear--just as well, since the film is dominated by Orson Welles. Introducing himself with a typically Read More

King Lear

Actors: Orson Welles, Natasha Parry, Arnold Moss, Bramwell Fletcher, David J. Stewart

Synopsis: One of the first important distinctions to be made about this version of King Lear is that it is not the same version directed by Peter Brook in 1971. Brook was responsible for the staging of this 1953 version, but it was Andrew McCullough who put it to film. Orson Welles portrays the titular Read More

Le Petit Monde de Don Camillo

Actors: Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Franco Interlenghi, Vera Talqui, Sylvie

Synopsis: Orson Welles provides the voice of God in this farce starring Fernandel as Don Camillo, a vicar who causes trouble for the town's communist-leaning mayor. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Othello

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Orson Welles, Michael MacLiammoir, Michael Laurence, Suzanne Cloutier, Robert Coote

Synopsis: Anyone interested in making a low-budget movie ought to see Orson Welles' screen adaptation of William Shakespeare's Othello, a striking example of how much can be achieved with very little money. For years, stories about this singularly troubled movie circulated more widely than the film itself; Welles Read More

Trent's Last Case

Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Wilding, Sr., Orson Welles, John McCallum, Miles Malleson

Synopsis: A society woman (Margaret Lockwood) is accused of murdering her businessman husband (Orson Welles). Called to piece the clues together is Inspector Trent (Michael Wilding), on the verge of retiring from detection. He learns that the dead man was a louse, providing the wife with plenty of motive. Read More

The Black Rose

Actors: Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins, Michael Rennie

Synopsis: Partly conceived as a follow-up to Prince of Foxes, 20th Century-Fox's The Black Rose, reunites the earlier film's two stars, Tyrone Power and Orson Welles. Filmed on location in England and Morocco, the story concerns 13th-century Saxon nobleman Walter of Gurnie (Tyrone Power), who, after Read More

The Third Man

Actors: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee, Paul Hoerbiger

Synopsis: In this Cold War spy classic, Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten), a third-rate American pulp novelist, arrives in postwar Vienna, where he has been promised a job by his old friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles). Upon his arrival, Martins discovers that Lime has been killed in a traffic accident, and that Read More

Black Magic

Actors: Orson Welles, Nancy Guild, Akim Tamiroff, Frank Latimore

Synopsis: Gregory Ratoff is listed as sole director of the 1949 Orson Welles starrer Black Magic, but it is now common knowledge that Welles directed most of this lavish costumer himself. Told in flashback, the film recounts the life and times of notorious 18th-century hypnotist/magician/scam artist Read More

Prince of Foxes

Actors: Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Wanda Hendrix, Everett Sloane, Marina Berti, Katina Paxinou

Synopsis: Filmed entirely on location in Italy, Prince of Foxes is an adaptation of Samuel Shellabarger's popular novel. Set during the Renaissance, the film stars Tyrone Power as Orsini, a good-will ambassador for scheming, covetous Cesare Borgia (Orson Welles). Orsini is aware that he is being used to Read More

The Lady from Shanghai

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Ted de Corsia, Glenn Anders, Gus Schilling

Synopsis: The Lady From Shanghai, a complex, involving puzzle-within-a-puzzle mystery story, is a showcase for Orson Welles, showing his singular talents and sensibilities as few other films have. The story is superficially simple: a seaman Michael O'Hara (Welles) is hired as a crew member on the yacht of Read More

Macbeth

Crew: Costume Designer, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Orson Welles, Jeanette Nolan, Dan O'Herlihy, Roddy McDowall, Edgar Barrier

Synopsis: Shakespeare's tragic tale of the rise and fall of ambitious 12th-century Scottish warrior MacBeth has proven irresistible to filmmakers. Orson Welles was so anxious to transfer the play to the screen that he acceded to the demands of his parent studio, Republic pictures, that he shoot his version Read More

Tomorrow Is Forever

Actors: Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, George Brent, Lucile Watson, Richard Long

Synopsis: Elizabeth MacDonald (Claudette Colbert) is a newly married corporate librarian in 1918 Baltimore working for a chemical company owned by the Hamilton family and managed by Larry Hamilton (George Brent). Just as she is celebrating the armistice and anticipating the return of her husband John (Orson Welles Read More

Duel in the Sun

Actors: Griff Barnett, Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck, Charles Bickford, Joseph Cotten, Sidney Blackmer, Lionel Barrymore, Harry Carey, Lillian Gish

Synopsis: In David O. Selznick's Duel in the Sun, Jennifer Jones stars as Pearl Chavez, whom everyone has tagged as a "bad girl" foredoomed to an unhappy end. She is taken into the home of wealthy, greedy rancher McCanles (Lionel Barrymore) and his kindly wife Laura Belle (Lillian Gish), who'd once been the Read More

The Stranger

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Philip Merivale, Martha Wentworth, Richard Long, Byron Keith

Synopsis: The Stranger is often considered Orson Welles' most "traditional" Hollywood-style directorial effort. Welles plays a college professor named Charles Rankin, who lives in a pastoral Connecticut town with his lovely wife Mary (Loretta Young). One afternoon, an extremely nervous German gentleman Read More

Jane Eyre

Actors: Orson Welles, Joan Fontaine, Margaret O'Brien, John Sutton, Peggy Ann Garner, Agnes Moorehead, Henry Daniell

Synopsis: Director Robert Stevenson collaborated with novelist Aldous Huxley and theatrical-producer John Houseman on the screenplay for this 1944 adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's gothic romance Jane Eyre. After several harrowing years in an orphanage, where she was placed by a supercilious relative for Read More

Follow the Boys

Actors: George Raft, Vera Zorina, Charles Grapewin, George Macready, Charles Butterworth, Regis Toomey, Grace McDonald

Synopsis: Paramount Pictures did their patriotic duty with this World War II era musical, with a number of the studio's biggest stars making cameo appearances. Tony West (George Raft), his sister Kitty (Grace McDonald), and their father Nick (Charles Grapewin) tour together as The Three Wests, a failing act Read More

Show Business at War

The Magnificent Ambersons

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Tim Holt, Agnes Moorehead

Synopsis: Orson Welles' followup to Citizen Kane (1941) was utterly different from Kane in style and texture, but just as brilliant in its own way. Writer/director Welles does not appear on camera, but his voiceover narration superbly sets the stage for the movie's action, which fades in valentine Read More

Journey into Fear

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Joseph Cotten, Dolores Del Rio, Ruth Warrick, Orson Welles, Jack Durant, Agnes Moorehead

Synopsis: Orson Welles had planned to produce, direct and star in RKO's Journey Into Fear, but prior commitments compelled him to vacate the director's chair in favor of Norman Foster. Joseph Cotten, who starred as an American gunnery engineer up to his armpits in international intrigue, adapted the Read More

Citizen Kane

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins, Ruth Warrick, George Coulouris

Synopsis: Orson Welles first feature film -- which he directed, produced, and co-wrote, as well as playing the title role -- proved to be his most important and influential work, a ground-breaking drama loosely based on the life of William Randolph Hearst which is frequently cited as the finest American Read More

Swiss Family Robinson

Actors: Thomas Mitchell, Edna Best, Freddie Bartholomew, Terry Kilburn, Tim Holt

Synopsis: Johan David Wyss' novel Swiss Family Robinson had been in print for nearly fifty years before the first film version was made by RKO in 1940. Thomas Mitchell is top-billed as the patriarch of the Robinson family, who, as in the book, are shipwrecked on a tropical island and compelled to bring the Read More

Too Much Johnson

Crew: Director

Hearts of Age

Crew: Director