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Authors: James Naremore
1940 | The Swiss Family Robinson |
1946 | Duel in the Sun |
1956 | Lords of the Forest |
1958 | The Vikings |
1959 | High Journey |
 | South Seas Adventure |
1961 | King of Kings |
1962 | River of the Ocean |
1963 | The Finest Hours |
1970 | To Build a Fire |
1971 | Sentinels of Silence |
 | Directed by John Ford |
1972 | The Crucifixion |
1973 | Future Shock |
1975 | Bugs Bunny Superstar |
1976 | The Challenge of Greatness |
1979 | The Late, Great Planet Earth |
1981 | Genocide |
 | History of the World, Part I |
I offer here a partial list. Welles announced dozens of films that were never started. At one extreme is a project like
It's All True
, which was virtually completed before RKO withdrew its support; at the other are films that never got beyond a script or an outline.
1939â40 | Heart of Darkness |
 | Smiler with a Knife |
1941 | The Way to Santiago |
 | The Pickwick Papers |
 | It's All True |
1942 | It's All True |
1944 | The Landru Story |
 | War and Peace |
 | Don't Catch Me |
1945 | Henry V |
 | Crime and Punishment |
 | Enrico Caruso |
1947 | Moby Dick |
 | Fully Dressed and in His Right Mind |
 | Cyrano de Bergerac |
 | Bolivar's Idea |
 | Carmen |
 | Portrait of an Assassin |
1948? | Salomé |
 | Ulysses |
 | Around the World in 80 Days |
1950 | Paris by Night |
1953 | Julius Caesar |
1957 | Don Quixote |
? | Operation Cendrillon |
 | Carmilla |
 | The Naked Lady and the Musketeers |
 | Alexandre Dumas |
 | Lovelife |
 | Salome, Two by Two, and Abraham |
1960 | Catch-22 |
1969 | The Merchant of Venice |
1970â80 | The Other Side of the Wind |
 | The Big Brass Ring |
 | King Lear |
1978 | The Dreamers |
1980â85 | The Magic Show |
 | The Assassin |
 | The Cradle Will Rock |
 | The Other Man |
 | Dead Giveaway |
 | Mercedes |
The index that appeared in the print version of this title was intentionally removed from the eBook. Please use the search function on your eReading device for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below
Abbey Theatre
absurdism
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
acting style
Actor's Studio
Adagio
Addams, Charles
Adding Machine
Ade, George
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
Agee, James
Albee, Edward
Albinoni, Tomaso
Alexeieff, Alexandre
All About Eve
Alland, William
Alphaville
American Cinematographer
American Film
American Film Institute
Anders, Glenn
Anderson, Eddie
Anderson, Sherwood
Anile, Alberto
Anecdotes of Destiny
Apartment, The
Archer, William
Arden, Robert
Arnaz, Desi
Arnold, Jack
Around the World in Eighty Days
: radio
theatre
Around the World with Orson Welles
Artaud, Antonin
Assassin, The
Astaire, Fred
Atkins, Zoe
Atkinson, Brooks
Auer, Misha
authorship
autobiography in Welles's work
Badge of Evil
Baer, Richard
Ball, Lucille
Barber, C. L.
Barber of Seville, The
Barefoot Contessa, The
Barrymore, John
Barrymore, Lionel
Barthes, Roland
Baxter, Keith
Bazin, André
Beard, Charles
Beck, Marilyn
Beckett, Samuel
Beckley, Tony
Behrman, S. N.
Bell for Adano, A
Benchley, Peter
Benjamin, Walter
Bennett, Richard
Benny, Jack
Bergman, Ingmar
Bernardin de St. Pierre, Jacques Henri
Bernstein, Dr. Maurice
Bessy, Maurice
Big Brass Ring, The
Big Clock, The
Big Sleep, The
Bitzer, William “Billy”
Black Boy
Black Irish
Black Magic
Black Rose, The
Blackstone, Harry
Blake, Nicholas
Blitzstein, Marc
Bogart, Humphrey
Bogdanovich, Peter
Bonanni, Mauro
Boorman, John
Bordwell, David
Bouscheri, Medhi
Brady, Frank
Brecht, Bertolt
Bretton Woods Agreement
Bright Lucifer
Brighton Rock
Brody, Alan
Broken Blossoms
Brooks, Peter
Brown, John
Brustein, Robert
Bryant, Michael
Bryson, Lyman
Burch, Noel
Bury the Dead
Byron, Lord George
Cagney, James
Cahiers du Cinéma
Calleia, Joseph
camera movement.
See also
long take
“Camille, the Naked Lady, and the Musketeer”
“Caminante del Mayab”
Campbell's Soup
Cantril, Hadley
Äapek, Karel
Capra, Frank
Carmen
Carringer, Robert
Carson, Johnny
Carter, Jimmy
Casablanca
Casino Royale
Castle, William
Catch-22
Cervantes, Miguel de
Chandler, Jeff
Chandler, Raymond
Chaplin, Charles
Chapman, John
Chappell, William
Chayefsky, Paddy
Chicago Art Institute
Chimes at Midnight
(
Falstaff
)
Chopin, Frederic
Citizen Hearst
Citizen Kane
Citizen Kane Book, The
Clair, René
Clarence
Clatworthy, Robert
Cloutier, Suzanne
Coffee-Pepper Bill
Coggio, Roger
Cohn, Harry
Cold War
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
College English
Collier, John
Collins, Ray
Columbia Broadcasting System
Columbia Pictures
Columbia Records
Comedy Theatre
Comingore, Dorothy
Conrad, Joseph
contradictions in Welles's work
Cops
Coriolanus
Cornell, Katharine
Cortez, Stanley
Costello, Dolores
Cotten, Joseph
Coulouris, George
Coward, Noel
Cowie, Peter
Cracked Nuts
Cradle Will Rock, The
Craig, Hardin
Crowd, The
Culture and Society
Curtis, Tony
Danton's Death
Dassin, Jules
Davies, Marion
Day for Night
Dead Calm
: Welles film
Miller film
novel
Dead Giveaway
Dead Reckoning
Deep, The
: Welles's film
Miller film
Yeats's film
deep focus photography.
See also
wide-angle photography
defamiliarization
de Hory, Elmyr
Del Rio, Dolores
De Sica, Vittorio
Desilu
Dewey, Thomas
Dickens, Charles
Dierkes, John
Dietrich, Marlene
Dillaway, Don
Dinesen, Isak (Karen Blixen)
“Director in the Theatre Today, The”
Disney, Walt
Dr. Faustus
Don Quixote
Dos Passos, John
Drake, Herbert
Dreamers, The
Drössler, Stefan
Duffield, Brainerd
Dunbar, Paul
Dunham, Harry
Durgnat, Raymond
Eastern Airlines
Eckert, Charles
Edeson, Arthur
editing.
See also
long take; montage; shot/reverse shot
Edwards, Hilton
Eisenstein, S. M.
El Greco
Ellis, Evelyn
Emily Brady
Empson, William
Enfants du Paradis, Les
Eshley, Norman
Evans, Robert
Everybody's Shakespeare
expressionism.
See also
Gothic style; realism
Fabulous Orson Welles, The
Farber, Manny
Farrow, John
Faustian themes
FBO Pictures
Federal Communications Commission
Federal Theatre.
See also
Works Projects Administration Theatre
Feeney, F. X.
Fellini, Federico
Ferguson, Otis
Ferguson, Perry
Ferguson Case, The
F for Fake
Fields, W. C.
Film Comment
film noir
Filmosa
Films and Feelings
Films l'Astrophore
First Person Singular
Fischer, Bud
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Five Kings
Five Star Final
Flanagan, Hallie
Fleck, Freddie
Fleet's In, The
Flon, Suzanne
Fonda, Henry
Ford, John
Fortnightly, The
Foster, Norman
Fowler, Roy
Francis, Kay
Franco, Francisco
Franco, Jesus
Frankenstein
French Connection, The
Freud, Sigmund.
See also
Oedipal themes; psychology; sexual themes
Frobe, Gert