The Magic World of Orson Welles (56 page)

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
Écran
.) 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, 1957–58. 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
(1955–73)

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 1964–65. 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, Ángel 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, 1964–65. 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, Saša Devčić, 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, 1967–69.

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.