Movies: Orson Welles
- 1978
Mysterious Castles of Clay (1978)
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Mysterious Castles of Clay is a 1978 film about a termite colony; filmed in Kenya by film-makers Joan and Alan Root, and narrated by Orson Welles. (narration replaced by Derek Jacobi, in a later release titled "Castles of Clay")...
- 1978
Filming Othello (1978)
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Filming Othello is a 1978 documentary film directed by and starring Orson Welles about the making of his award-winning 1952 production Othello. The film, which was produced for West German television, was the last completed feature film directed by W...
- 1997
The Big Brass Ring (1997)
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George Hickenlooper filmed five pages (two scenes) from Orson Welles' screenplay of "The Big Brass Ring" in 1997 in the hope of attracting interest in the project. The feature film version was released in 1999....
- 1952
Trent's Last Case (1952)
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When a wealthy business man is found dead reporter Philip Trent is sent to investigate. Against the police conclusions, he suspects the assumed suicide is really a murder, and becomes highly interested in the young widow and the dead man's private se...
- 1967
Disorder Is 20 Years Old (1967)
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- 1988
On the tracks of a filmmaker (1988)
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- 1973
The Cave (1973)
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Carried by a rich narration from Orson Welles, this rarely seen 1973 animated adaptation of Plato’s 'allegory of the cave' populates the tale with haunting human figures, bringing retro-surreal life to the parable....
- 1953
Man, Beast and Virtue (1953)
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Paolino, a teacher at an elementary school near Naples, appears nervous for a few days and his friends do not know why. The man is the lover of Assunta, the mother of one of his pupils, and he discovers that she has become pregnant....
- 2019
Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil" (2019)
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An essay on how could Welles' Touch of Evil and his story about the border between USA and Mexico influence Trump's imagination....
- 1958
The Fountain of Youth (1958)
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A couple is conflicted when they are offered a chance at youth. Based on John Collier's short story “Youth from Vienna”....
- 1965
Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees (1965)
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Jane Goodall has spent five years observing the chimps in Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika), Africa. One of her discoveries is that they use primitive tools. The film shows the life of the chimps. Retrospective note: This documentary features remarkable...
- 1975
Bugs Bunny Superstar (1975)
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Animator Robert Clampett presents a history of "Termite Terrace," the little shack on the Warner Brothers studio lot which in the 1930's and 1940's housed the animation unit which gave birth to Porky Pig, Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny. Includes color and...
- 1970
A Horse Called Nijinsky (1970)
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Documentary, narrated by Orson Welles, about the legendary race horse Nijinsky, one of the greatest and most successful race horses in history and after his retirement from the racetrack in 1970 an important sire of thoroughbred horses....
- 2024
The Battle of Grovers Mill (2024)
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An aspiring journalist faces the unimaginable when news of a nearby crash site comes over the radio. Based on “The War of the Worlds” by H.G. Wells and the Orson Welles / Mercury Theatre on the Air radio play of the same name....
- 2011
Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure (2011)
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In 1987, Eddie Lee Sausage and Mitch Deprey recorded the nightly squabbles of their over-the-top neighbors, homophobic Raymond Huffman and proudly gay Peter Haskett, and the chronicle of the pair's bizarre existence soon took on a life of its own. Th...
- 1972
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1972)
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Lecturer and broadcaster Sheridan Whiteside has been invited to dinner at the home of a pompous small-town bigwig. But he stays rather longer than anyone expects....
- 2012
Magic Mirror Maze (2012)
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The famed Hall of Mirrors sequence of Welles' classic noir The Lady from Shanghai is transformed through a succession of four algorithmic progressions of split screen patterns. The result is hypnotic, kaleidoscopic and a bit uncanny....
- 1982
Magic with the Stars (1982)
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Hollywood celebrities assist magicians in a program of magic and illusion....
- 2020
Hopper/Welles (2020)
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Captures a 1970 meeting between the movie industry titan Orson Welles and the then-rising star Dennis Hopper, who had just made Easy Rider....
- 1977
Hot Tomorrows (1977)
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A portrait of a young man, Michael, so obsessed with death that he decorates his room with a life-size Grim Reaper. One night Michael's closest buddy, Louis, joins him for an adventure in Hollywood on Christmas Eve....