Movies: Orson Welles

  • 1978
    Mysterious Castles of Clay

    Mysterious Castles of Clay (1978)

    Mysterious Castles of Clay

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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")...

    Mysterious Castles of Clay
  • 1978
    Filming Othello

    Filming Othello (1978)

    Filming Othello

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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...

    Filming Othello
  • 1997
    The Big Brass Ring

    The Big Brass Ring (1997)

    The Big Brass Ring

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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....

    The Big Brass Ring
  • 1952
    Trent's Last Case

    Trent's Last Case (1952)

    Trent's Last Case

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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...

    Trent's Last Case
  • 1967
    Disorder Is 20 Years Old

    Disorder Is 20 Years Old (1967)

    Disorder Is 20 Years Old

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    Disorder Is 20 Years Old
  • 1988
    On the tracks of a filmmaker

    On the tracks of a filmmaker (1988)

    On the tracks of a filmmaker

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    On the tracks of a filmmaker
  • 1973
    The Cave

    The Cave (1973)

    The Cave

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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....

    The Cave
  • 1953
    Man, Beast and Virtue

    Man, Beast and Virtue (1953)

    Man, Beast and Virtue

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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....

    Man, Beast and Virtue
  • 2019
    Emergency: Donald Trump’s

    Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil" (2019)

    Emergency: Donald Trump’s "Touch of Evil"

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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....

    Emergency: Donald Trump’s
  • 1958
    The Fountain of Youth

    The Fountain of Youth (1958)

    The Fountain of Youth

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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”....

    The Fountain of Youth
  • 1965
    Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees

    Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees (1965)

    Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees

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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...

    Miss Goodall and the Wild Chimpanzees
  • 1975
    Bugs Bunny Superstar

    Bugs Bunny Superstar (1975)

    Bugs Bunny Superstar

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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...

    Bugs Bunny Superstar
  • 1970
    A Horse Called Nijinsky

    A Horse Called Nijinsky (1970)

    A Horse Called Nijinsky

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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....

    A Horse Called Nijinsky
  • 2024
    The Battle of Grovers Mill

    The Battle of Grovers Mill (2024)

    The Battle of Grovers Mill

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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....

    The Battle of Grovers Mill
  • 2011
    Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure

    Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure (2011)

    Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure

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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...

    Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure
  • 1972
    The Man Who Came to Dinner

    The Man Who Came to Dinner (1972)

    The Man Who Came to Dinner

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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....

    The Man Who Came to Dinner
  • 2012
    Magic Mirror Maze

    Magic Mirror Maze (2012)

    Magic Mirror Maze

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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....

    Magic Mirror Maze
  • 1982
    Magic with the Stars

    Magic with the Stars (1982)

    Magic with the Stars

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    Hollywood celebrities assist magicians in a program of magic and illusion....

    Magic with the Stars
  • 2020
    Hopper/Welles

    Hopper/Welles (2020)

    Hopper/Welles

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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....

    Hopper/Welles
  • 1977
    Hot Tomorrows

    Hot Tomorrows (1977)

    Hot Tomorrows

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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....

    Hot Tomorrows