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Welles as Narrator (Exclusive of TV Films)

1940

The Swiss Family Robinson
(d. Edward Ludwig)

1946

Duel in the Sun
(d. King Vidor)

1956

Lords of the Forest
(d. Henry Brandt and Heinz Sielman)

1958

The Vikings
(d. Richard Fleischer)

1959

High Journey
(d. Peter Baylis)

 

South Seas Adventure
(d. Carl Dudley)

1961

King of Kings
(d. Nicholas Ray)

1962

River of the Ocean
(d. Peter Baylis)

1963

The Finest Hours
(d. Peter Baylis)

1970

To Build a Fire
(d. David Cobham)

1971

Sentinels of Silence
(d. Robert Amrom)

 

Directed by John Ford
(d. Peter Bogdanovich)

1972

The Crucifixion
(d. Robert Guenette)

1973

Future Shock
(d. Alex Grasshoff)

1975

Bugs Bunny Superstar

1976

The Challenge of Greatness
(d. Herbert Kline)

1979

The Late, Great Planet Earth
(d. Robert Amram)

1981

Genocide
(d. Arnold Schwartzman)

 

History of the World, Part I
(d. Mel Brooks)

Unrealized Projects

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.

1939–40

Heart of Darkness

 

Smiler with a Knife

1941

The Way to Santiago
(Mexican Melodrama)

 

The Pickwick Papers

 

It's All True
(A North American version of the anthology film Welles later shot in Brazil, composed of three episodes:
Love Story, The Captain's Chair
, and an untitled story about New Orleans jazz. Writers included John Fante and Robert Flaherty.)

1942

It's All True

1944

The Landru Story
(became Chaplin's
Monsieur Verdoux
)

 

War and Peace

 

Don't Catch Me
(script by Orson Welles, Bud Pearson, and Les White)

1945

Henry V
(based on Pirandello)

 

Crime and Punishment

 

Enrico Caruso

1947

Moby Dick

 

Fully Dressed and in His Right Mind

 

Cyrano de Bergerac

 

Bolivar's Idea
(adapted from a radio show of 1942)

 

Carmen
(script by Brainerd Duffield)

 

Portrait of an Assassin
(This title is listed in Charles Higham's biography of Welles. It may refer to a script Welles worked on with Charles MacArthur, about the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand at Sarajevo.)

1948?

Salomé
(script by Orson Welles and Fletcher Markle)

 

Ulysses
(script by Ernst Bornemann)

 

Around the World in 80 Days

1950

Paris by Night

1953

Julius Caesar

1957

Don Quixote

?

Operation Cendrillon
(a film about a Hollywood movie company working in an Italian town)

 

Carmilla

 

The Naked Lady and the Musketeers

 

Alexandre Dumas

 

Lovelife
(described by Welles as “a film about sexual obsession”)

 

Salome, Two by Two, and Abraham
(three stories from the Bible)

1960

Catch-22

1969

The Merchant of Venice

1970–80

The Other Side of the Wind

 

The Big Brass Ring

 

King Lear

1978

The Dreamers
(based on fiction by Isak Dinesen)

1980–85

The Magic Show

 

The Assassin

 

The Cradle Will Rock

 

The Other Man

 

Dead Giveaway

 

Mercedes

Index

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

Čapek, 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

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