Direction: Orson Welles

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Orson Welles · Joseph Cotten · Everett Sloane · George Coulouris

Synopsis Citizen Kane (1941) follows the life of Charles Foster Kane, a wealthy newspaper magnate, through the eyes of those who knew him. After Kane's death, a reporter investigates the meaning of his final word, "Rosebud," uncovering fragments of his rise...

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Charlton Heston · Janet Leigh · Orson Welles · Marlene Dietrich

Synopsis Touch of Evil (1958) is a gripping film noir set in a corrupt border town. The story begins with a dramatic car explosion, drawing the attention of Mexican narcotics officer Miguel Vargas and his American wife, Susie. As Vargas investigates...

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Orson Welles · Rita Hayworth · Everett Sloane · Glenn Anders

Synopsis The Lady From Shanghai (1947) follows Michael O'Hara, a charming Irish sailor who becomes entangled in a web of deceit and danger after meeting the enigmatic Elsa Bannister and her wealthy, disabled husband, Arthur. Hired as a crew member on...

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Orson Welles · Keith Baxter · John Gielgud · Jeanne Moreau

Synopsis Sir John Falstaff is the hero in this compilation of extracts from Shakespeare's 'Henry IV' and other plays, made into a connected story of Falstaff's career as young Prince Hal's drinking companion. The massive knight roisters with and without the...

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Tim Holt · Joseph Cotten · Dolores Costello · Agnes Moorehead

Synopsis The young, handsome, but somewhat wild Eugene Morgan wants to marry Isabel Amberson, daughter of a rich upper-class family, but she instead marries dull and steady Wilbur Minafer. Their only child, George, grows up a spoiled brat. Years later, Eugene...

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Orson Welles · Suzanne Cloutier · Micheál MacLiammóir · Robert Coote

Synopsis The story of a man driven mad by the power of his self-contained emotion. A Shakespearean classic. Orson Welles' production began in 1948 but with money in short supply the production took a further four years to complete. An original...

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Orson Welles · Oja Kodar · Joseph Cotten · Jean-Pierre Aumont

Synopsis F. for Fake (1973) is a playful and thought-provoking documentary-essay by Orson Welles that blurs the line between truth and deception. The film explores the lives of notorious art forger Elmyr de Hory and his biographer, Clifford Irving, who himself...

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Orson Welles · Jeanette Nolan · Dan O'Herlihy · Roddy McDowall

Synopsis Macbeth, a loyal henchman to his crime boss, Duncan, is told by teenage witches that he will one day assume great power. Driven by their prophecy, he plots with his wife to kill Duncan, and takes the leadership of the...

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Anthony Perkins · Romy Schneider · Jeanne Moreau · Orson Welles

Synopsis Josef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused of. In order to find out about the reason of...

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Edward G. Robinson · Loretta Young · Orson Welles · Philip Merivale

Synopsis In The Stranger (1946), a war crimes investigator tracks a notorious Nazi fugitive who has assumed a new identity in a small American town. Posing as a respected teacher, the fugitive lives a quiet life until his past begins to...

Direction Orson Welles · Bill Krohn · Myron Meisel · Richard Wilson

Cast Orson Welles

Synopsis A documentary about Orson Welles's unfinished three-part film about South America.

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Orson Welles · Jeanne Moreau · Roger Coggio · Norman Eshley

Synopsis The Portuguese colony of Macao in the 19th century. Mr. Clay is a very rich merchant and the subject of town gossip. He has spent many years in China and is now quite old. He likes his clerk Levinsky to...

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Robert Arden · Orson Welles · Paola Mori · Akim Tamiroff

Synopsis Orson Welles’s "Mr. Arkadin" tells the story of an elusive billionaire who hires an American smuggler to investigate his past. Welles missed the editing deadline, so the producer handed over the editing to others. Following two Spanish-dubbed versions, released in...

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Orson Welles · Robert Coote · Hilton Edwards

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Orson Welles

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Orson Welles · Elaine Dundy · Kenneth Tynan · Art Buchwald

Synopsis In 1955, Orson Welles directed and hosted a mini series for British television. He leads us through a few famous places of Europe with his inimitable touch. In Paris he introduces us to famous artists such as Juliette Gréco or...

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Orson Welles · Angie Dickinson · Gary Graver · Roger Hill

Synopsis Rare short film by Orson Welles unfortunately he never completed it, I would not consider this to be his best work but there are some powerful scenes which are well worth watching.

Direction Orson Welles

Cast Marjorie Bennett · Madge Blake · Billy House · Rick Jason

Synopsis This minor, virtually unseen entry in Orson Welles' filmography really deserves more exposure. It's a sly little morality play very reminiscent of an episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", but done with far more flair & skill. Mixing a standard 1950's...

Direction Norman Foster · Orson Welles

Cast Joseph Cotten · Dolores del Rio · Orson Welles · Everett Sloane

Synopsis A US Navy engineer, returning to the US with his wife from a conference, finds himself pursued by Nazi agents, who are out to kill him. Without a word to his wife, he flees the hotel the couple is staying...

Direction Orson Welles

Cast John Huston · Robert Random · Peter Bogdanovich · Susan Strasberg

Synopsis The story of a legendary director named J.J. "Jake" Hannaford, who returns to Hollywood from years of semi-exile in Europe with plans to complete work on his own innovative comeback movie-also entitled The Other Side of the Wind...