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Citizen Kane
Newspaper magnate, Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
Casts & Crew
Orson Welles
Joseph Cotten
Dorothy Comingore
Ray Collins
George Coulouris
Agnes Moorehead
Paul Stewart
Ruth Warrick
Erskine Sanford
William Alland
Everett Sloane
Fortunio Bonanova
Gus Schilling
Philip Van Zandt
Georgia Backus
Harry Shannon
Sonny Bupp
Buddy Swan
Gregg Toland
Don Ackerman
Nat King Cole
Gino Corrado
Maurice Costello
Demetrius Alexis
Gene Coogan
Art Dupuis
Rudy Germane
Mike Lally
Walter Lawrence
John Northpole
Victor Romito
Bob Terry
William Alston
Jack Gargan
Bert Moorhouse
Carmen Laroux
Sam Ash
Buddy Messinger
Terrance Ray
Sally Corner
Walter Bacon
Herbert Corthell
Harry A. Bailey
Danny Borzage
J.J. Clark
Tom Coleman
Carl Deloro
Jack Egan
Robert Haines
Ludwig Lowry
John McCormack
Hercules Mendez
Paddy O'Flynn
Sam Rice
Don Roberts
Larry Wheat
Larry Williams
Joan Blair
Morgan Brown
Harry Burkhardt
Edmund Cobb
Eddie Coke
Louis Natheaux
Arthur O'Connell
Guy Repp
Tom Steele
Richard Wilson
Louise Currie
Walter Sande
Jan Wiley
Milton Kibbee
Buck Mack
Alan Ladd
Thomas A. Curran
Jack Curtis
George Noisom
Gerald Pierce
Donna Dax
George DeNormand
Bud Geary
Bert LeBaron
Clyde McAtee
Cyril Ring
Roland Winters
Lew Harvey
Herman J. Mankiewicz
Eddie Dew
Perc Launders
John Dilson
Walter James
Robert Dudley
Suzanne Dulier
Al Eben
Johnny Eckert
Carl Ekberg
Edith Evanson
Carl Faulkner
Juanita Fields
Edna Mae Jones
Leda Nicova
Jolane Reynolds
Suzanne Ridgeway
Olin Francis
Louise Franklin
Renee Godfrey
Peter Gowland
Jimmy Grant
Jesse Graves
Ernest Grooney
Jack Gwynne
Teddy Mangean
Henry Hebert
Bryan 'Slim' Hightower
Mitchell Ingraham
Philip Morris
Francis Sayles
George W. Jimenez
Ellen Lowe
James T. Mack
Mickey Martin
Bruce Sidney
Major McBride
Frank McLure
Charles Meakin
Edward Peil Jr.
Irving Mitchell
Frances E. Neal
Lillian Nicholson
Joseph North
William H. O'Brien
Field Norton
Dick Scott
Frank O'Connor
Russ Powell
Bert Stevens
Thomas Pogue
Lillian O'Malley
Jack Raymond
Gohr Van Vleck
Myrtle Rishell
Benny Rubin
Shimen Ruskin
George Sherwood
Edward Ryan
Landers Stevens
Harry J. Vejar
Tudor Williams
Arthur Yeoman
Tim Davis
Charles Bennett
Arthur Kay
Also Directed by Orson Welles
Orson Welles unfinished movie made in Brazil, about four rafterman that leave their village to go to the capital in search for their rights.
An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.
Comedy adventure based on a Jules Verne novel about the ups and downs of jewel thieves in the wilds of Africa circa 1900. George Segal is the appealing hero-heel and Ursula Andress is visually stunning as the lady in the proceedings. Orson Welles has a small role.
Moby Dick—Rehearsed is a two-act drama by Orson Welles. The play was staged June 16–July 9, 1955, at the Duke of York's Theatre in London, in a production directed by Welles. Welles used minimal stage design. The stage was bare, the actors appeared in contemporary street clothes, and the props were minimal. For example, brooms were used for oars, and a stick was used for a telescope. The actors provided the action, and the audience's imagination provided the ocean, costumes, and the whale. Welles filmed approximately 75 minutes of the production, with the original cast, at the Hackney Empire and Scala Theatres in London. He hoped to sell the film to Omnibus, the United States television series which had presented his live performance of King Lear in 1953; but Welles stopped shooting when he was disappointed in the results. The film is considered lost.
In 1939, Orson Welles staged a version of "The Green Goddess" in New York, which was preceded by a short film prelude – this was two years before the release of his debut feature film, Citizen Kane. The footage is now believed lost.
An unreleased 9 minute trailer for F for Fake directed by Orson Welles as promotional reel for the film's American release.
Orson Welles' 1955 documentary on the Basque Country and its people.
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 Jean Cocteau who lived in the Saint Germain Des Pres quarter. In London we meet the Chelsea Pensioners, in Spain we attend a Madrid Bullfight and visit the Basque country (Basque Country 1&2). Somewhere between a home movie and a cinematic essay, these short films have been described by French critics as the missing link in Welles' work.
A couple's honeymoon trip aboard a yacht leads to a claustrophobic drama when another vessel runs into their voyage, apparently drifting. Shot in a piecemeal fashion between 1966 and 1969 and plagued with production problems, this film never completed principal photography and never entered post-production. The original negatives are now considered to be lost, and the film only exists in two incomplete workprint versions (one color and one black-and-white), which have received isolated public screenings since 2007.
Magic Trick is a short film made in 1953 by Orson Welles, for use in a show by magician Richard Himber. It involves Welles on-screen interacting with Himber off-screen as the two play a card trick, and would have been projected life-size (in black and white) during Himber's touring stage show in the 1950s.