Read The Magic World of Orson Welles Online
Authors: James Naremore
Production Company: A Mercury Production at Sevilla Studios (Spain)/Film Organization (France). (A Spanish version with a different cutter, and different players as Sophie and the baroness, was apparently shot at the same time. See Moret's filmography in
Ãcran
.) Filmed in France, Spain, Germany, and Italy, 1954. US premiere, Oct. 1962. 100 mins.
Director: Orson Welles
Script: Orson Welles, based on “Youth from Vienna,” by John Collier
Photography: Sidney Hickox
Art Director: Claudio Guzman
Editor: Bud Molin
Makeup: Maurice Seiderman
Cast: Orson Welles (
Narrator
), Dan Tobin (
Humphrey Baxter
), Joi Lansing (
Caroline Coates
), Rick Jason (
Alan Brody
), Billy House (
Albert Morgan
), Nancy Kulp (
Mrs. Morgan
), Marjorie Bennett (
Journalist
).
Production Company: Welles Enterprises/Desilu. Filmed in Los Angeles, 1956, telecast on NBC-TV, Sept. 16, 1958. 25 mins.
Touch of Evil
(1958)
Director: Orson Welles (added scene by Harry Keller)
Script: Orson Welles, adapted from an earlier script by Paul Monash, which in turn was based on Whit Masterson's novel
Badge of Evil
Photography: Russell Metty
Camera Operator: John Russell
Art Direction: Alexander Golitzen, Robert Clatworthy
Set Direction: Russell Gausman, John P. Austin
Music: Henry Mancini
Musical Supervisor: Joseph Gershenson
Costumes: Bill Thomas
Sound: Leslie I. Carey, Frank Wilkinson
Editors: Virgil Vogel, Aaron Stell, Edward Curtiss
Producer: Albert Zugsmith
Production Manager: F. D. Thompson
Assistant Directors: Phil Bowles, Terry Nelson
Cast: Orson Welles (
Hank Quinlan
), Charlton Heston (
Mike Vargas
), Janet Leigh (
Susan Vargas
), Joseph Calleia (
Pete Menzies
), Akim Tamiroff (
“Uncle Joe” Grandi
), Valentin de Vargas (
“Pancho”
), Ray Collins (
District Attorney Adair
), Dennis Weaver (
Motel “Night man”
), Joanna Moore (
Marcia Linnaker
), Mort Mills (
Schwartz
), Marlene Dietrich (
Tanya
), Victor Millan (
Manelo Sanchez
), Lalo Rios (
Risto
), Michael Sargent (
Pretty Boy
), Mercedes McCambridge (
Gang Leader
), Joseph Cotten (
Police surgeon
), Zsa Zsa Gabor (
Owner of strip joint
), Phil Harvey (
Blaine
), Joi Lansing (
Zita
), Harry Shannon (
Police Chief Gould
), Rusty Wescoatt (
Casey
), Wayne Taylor, Ken Millar, and Ramón Rodriguez (
Gang members
), Arlene McQuade (
Ginnie
), Domenick Delgarde (
Lackey
), Joe Basulto (
Delinquent
), Jennie Dias (
Jackie
), Yolanda Bojorquez (
Bobbie
), Eleanor Dorado (
Lia
), John Dierkes (
Plainclothes cop
).
Production Company: Universal Studios, location scenes in Venice, California, 1957â58. US premiere, Feb. 1958. Three versions exist (93 mins., 108 mins., and 111 mins.). None are definitive, although the third is closest to Welles's intentions.
Don Quixote
(1955â73)
Producer: Oscar Dancigers
Director: Orson Welles
Script: Orson Welles, based on the novel by Miguel de Cervantes
Photography: José Garcia Galisteo, Juan Manuel de Lachica, Edmond Richard, Jack Draper, Ricardo Navarrete, Manuel Mateos, Georgio Tonti, Gary Graver
Editors: Maurizio Lucidi, Renzo Lucidi, Peter Parasheles, Ira Wohl, Alberto Valenzuela
Cast: Francisco Reiguera (
Don Quixote
), Akim Tamiroff (
Sancho Panza
), Orson Welles (
Narrator
)
Unfinished. 35mm black-and-white, filmed in Mexico, Spain, and Italy.
In the Land of Don Quixote
(1961)
Director: Orson Welles
Script: Orson Welles
Photography: José Manuel de la Chica, Ricardo Navarete, Orson Welles
Cast: Orson Welles, Paola Mori, Beatrice Welles
Documentary, aired on RAI TV in 1964â65. 16mm black-and-white. Nine episodes totaling approximately 200 minutes.
The Trial
(1962)
Director: Orson Welles
Script: Orson Welles, based on Franz Kafka's novel
Photography: Edmond Richard
Camera Operator: Adolphe Charlet
Art Direction: Jean Mandaroux
Music: Jean Ledrut, and the
Adagio
of Tomaso Albinoni
Costumes: Hélène Thibault
Sound: Jacques Lebreton
Sound Recording: Julien Coutelier, Guy Villette
Pin-screen Prologue: Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker
Editors: Yvonne Martin, Denise Baby, Fritz Mueller
Producers: Alexander and Michael Salkind
Production Manager: Robert Florat
Assistant Directors: Marc Maurette, Paul Seban, Sophie Becker
Cast: Orson Welles (
Narrator/Advocate Hastler
), Anthony Perkins (
Joseph K
.), Jeanne Moreau (
Miss Burstner
), Romy Schneider (
Leni
), Elsa Martinelli (
Hilda
), Suzanne Flon (
Miss Pittl
), Madeleine Robinson (
Mrs. Grubach
), Akim Tamiroff (
Bloch
), Arnoldo Foà (
Inspector
), Fernand Ledoux (
Clerk of the Court
), Maurice Teynac (
Deputy Manager
), Billy Kearns (
1st police officer
), Jess Hahn (
2nd police officer
), William Chappell (
Titorelli
), Raoul Delfosse, Carl Studer, and Jean-Claude Rémoleux
(
Executioners
), Wolfgang Reichmann (
Usher
), Thomas Holtzmann (
Student
), Naydra Shore (
Irmie
), Max Haufler (
Uncle Max
), Michael Lonsdale (
Priest
), Max Buchsbaum (
Examining Magistrate
), Van Doude (
Archivist in cut scenes
), Katina Paxinou (
Scientist in cut scenes
).
Production Company: Paris Europa Films, H-C-IT, Hisa-Films. Filmed at Studio de Boulogne, Paris, at the Gare d'Orsay, and in Zagreb, March-June 1962. US premiere, Feb. 1963. 118 mins.
Chimes at Midnight
(1966) [later US title,
Falstaff
]
Director: Orson Welles
Script: Orson Welles, adapted from Shakespeare's
Richard II
;
Henry IV, parts I and II
;
Henry V
; and
The Merry Wives of Windsor
. Commentary from Raphael Holinshed's
The Chronicles of England
.
Photography: Edmond Richard
Camera Operator: Adolphe Charlet
Second Unit Photography: Alejandro Ulloa
Art Direction: José Antonio de la Guerra, Mariano Erdoiza
Music: Angelo Francesco Lavagnino
Musical Director: Carlo Franci
Costumes: Orson Welles
Sound Recording: Peter Parasheles
Editor: Fritz Mueller
Executive Producer: Alessandro Tasca
Producers: Emiliano Piedra, Ãngel Escolano
Production Manager: Gustavo Quintana
Assistant Directors: Tony Fuentes, Juan Cobos
Cast: Ralph Richardson (
Narrator
), Orson Welles (
Sir John Falstaff
), Keith Baxter (
Prince Hal, later Henry V
), John Gielgud (
King Henry IV
), Jeanne Moreau (
Doll Tearsheet
), Margaret Rutherford (
Mistress Quickly
), Norman Rodway (
Henry Percy, called Hotspur
), Marina Vlady (
Kate Percy
), Alan Webb (
Justice Shallow
), Walter Chiari (
Silence
), Michael Aldridge (
Pistol
), Tony Beckley (
Poins
), Fernando Rey (
Worcester
), Andrew Faulds (
Westmoreland
), José Nieto (
Northumberland
), Jeremy Rowe (
Prince John
), Beatrice Welles (
Falstaff's page
), Paddy Bedford (
Bardolph
), Julio Peña, Fernando Hilbeck, Andrés Mejuto, Keith Pyott, Charles Farrell.
Production Company: Internacional Films Española (Madrid)/Alpine (Basle). Filmed in Barcelona, Madrid, and various Spanish locations, 1964â65. US premiere, March 1967. 119 mins.
The Immortal Story
(1968)
Director: Orson Welles
Script: Orson Welles, based on the story by Isak Dinesen [Karen Blixen]
Photography: Willy Kurant
Color: Eastman Color
Assistant Cameramen: Jean Orjollet, Jacques Assuérus
Art Direction: André Piltant
Music: Piano pieces by Erik Satie, played by Aldo Ciccolini and Jean-Joël Barbier
Costumes for Jeanne Moreau: Pierre Cardin
Sound: Jean Nény
Editors: Yolande Maurette, Marcelle Pluet, Françoise Garnault, Claude Farny
Producer: Micheline Rozan
Production Manager: Marc Maurette
Assistant Directors: Olivier Gérard, Tony Fuentes, Patrice Torok
Cast: Orson Welles (
Narrator/Mr. Clay
), Jeanne Moreau (
Virginie Ducrot
), Roger Coggio (
Elishama Levinsky
), Norman Eshley (
Paul
), Fernando Rey (
Merchant
).
Production Company: ORTF/Albina Films. Filmed in Paris and Madrid, Sept.-Nov. 1966. US premiere, Sept. 1968. 58 mins.
F for Fake
(1973)
Director: Orson Welles, using material from an earlier film by François Reichenbach
Script: Orson Welles
Photography: (US and Toussaint) Gary Graver, (France and Ibiza) Christian Odasso. In 16mm color.
Music: Michel Legrand
Editors: Orson Welles, Marie-Sophie Dubus, Dominique Engerer
Titles: Lax
Sound Recording: Paul Bertault
Producers: Dominique Antoine, François Reichenbach
Associate Producer: Richard Drewett
Cast: Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Elmyr de Hory, Clifford Irving, Edith Irving, François Reichenbach, Joseph Cotten, Laurence Harvey, Richard Wilson, Paul Stewart, Howard Hughes, SaÅ¡a DevÄiÄ, Gary Graver, Andrés Vincent Gomez, Julio Palinkas, Christian Odasso,
François Widoff (
as themselves
), Peter Bogdanovich, William Alland (
offscreen
).
Production Company: Films de l'Astrophore (Paris)/Saci (Tehran)/Janus Film (Munich). Filmed in France and the US, 1973. US premiere, Oct. 1974. 85 mins.
Filming
Othello (1978)
Producers: Klaus Hellwig, Jürgen Hellwig
Director: Orson Welles
Script: Orson Welles
Photography (color sequences): Gary Graver
Music: Francesco Lavagnino, Alberto Barbaris
Editor: Marty Roth
Documentary, using footage from Welles's 1952 film of Shakespeare's
Othello
. Produced by West German Television. 84 mins.
The Deep
(Unreleased)
Director: Orson Welles
Script: Orson Welles, based on Charles Williams's novel
Dead Calm
Photography: Willy Kurant
Color: Eastman Color
Cast: Orson Welles (
Russ Brewer
), Jeanne Moreau (
Ruth Warriner
), Laurence Harvey (
Hughie Warriner
), Olga Palinkas (
Rae Ingram
), Michael Bryant (
John Ingram
).
Filmed at Hvar, Yugoslavia, 1967â69.
The Other Side of the Wind
(Incomplete)
Director: Orson Welles
Script: Orson Welles and Oja Kodar
Photography: Gary Graver
Color: Eastman Color
Production Design: Polly Pratt
Cast: John Huston (
Jake Hannaford
), Peter Bogdanovich (
Brooks Otterlake
), Lilli Palmer (
Zarah Valeska
), Susan Strasberg (
Juliet Rich
), Oja Kodar (
The Actress
), Bob Random (
John Dale
), Howard Grossman (
Charles Higgam
), Joseph McBride (
Mr. Pister
), Tanio Selwart (
The Baron
), Cathy Lucas (
Mavis Henscher
), Norman Foster (
Billy
), Edmond O'Brien (
Pat
), Cameron Mitchell (
Matt
), Mercedes McCambridge (
Maggie
), Benny Rubin, Richard Wilson, John Carrol, Paul
Mazursky, Curtis Harrington, Dennis Hopper, Henry Jaglom, Claude Chabrol, Stéphane Audran, Gary Graver.
Filming began Aug. 1970. Filmed in Los Angeles and Flagstaff, Arizona. Unfinished as of 2014. Royal Road films to release a fully edited version in 2015.
1943 | Jane Eyre |
1944 | Follow the Boys |
1945 | Tomorrow Is Forever |
1949 | Black Magic |
 | Prince of Foxes |
 | The Third Man |
1950 | The Black Rose |
1953 | Trent's Last Case |
 | Versailles |
 | L'Uomo, la Bestia e la Virtù |
1954 | Napolean |
 | Three Cases of Murder |
1955 | Trouble in the Glen |
1956 | Moby Dick |
1957 | Man in the Shadow |
 | The Long Hot Summer |
1958 | The Roots of Heaven |
1959 | Compulsion |
 | David and Goliath |
 | Ferry to Hong Kong |
1960 | Austerlitz |
 | Crack in the Mirror |
 | The Tartars |
1961 | Layfayette |
1962 | RoGoPaG |
1964 | Marco the Magnificent |
1965 | Is Paris Burning? |
1966 | The Sailor from Gibraltar |
 | A Man for All Seasons |
1967 | Casino Royale |
 | I'll Never Forget What's'isname |
 | Oedipus the King |
1968 | House of Cards |
 | The Southern Star |
1969 | The Battle of the Neretva |
 | Michael the Brave |
 | Teppea |
 | Twelve Plus One |
 | The Kremlin Letter |
 | Start the Revolution without Me |
 | Mihai Viteazu |
1970 | Catch-22 |
 | Waterloo |
 | Upon This Rock |
1971 | A Safe Place |
 | The Toy Factory |
 | Get to Know Your Rabbit |
 | La Décade Prodigieuse |
 | The Canterbury Tales |
 | To Kill a Stranger |
1972 | Sutjeska |
 | Malpertuis |
 | Necromancy |
 | Treasure Island |
1977 | Voyage of the Damned |
1979 | Never Trust an Honest Thief |
 | The Secret of Nikola Tesla |
 | The Muppet Movie |
1981 | Butterfly |
1982 | The Muppets Take Manhattan |
1983 | Where Is Parsifal? |
1987 | Someone to Love |