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  Macbeth

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  Othello

  Othello is a 1952 drama film based on the Shakespearean play, made by Mercury Productions Inc. and Les Films Marceau and distributed by United Artists (1955). It was directed and produced by Orson Welles, who also played the title role (in blackface makeup). The screenplay was adapted by Welles and...
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  Around The World With Orson Welles

  Around the World with Orson Welles was a series of six short travelogues originally written and directed by Orson Welles for Associated-Rediffusion in 1955. Among the more notable episodes, Welles visited with Jean Cocteau and Juliette Gréco in Paris, attended a bullfight in Madrid and visited the...
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  The Trial

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  The Other Side of the Wind is an unfinished film directed by Orson Welles and starring John Huston, Peter Bogdanovich, Dennis Hopper and Oja Kodar. The film features Huston as an aging Hollywood director modeled on Ernest Hemingway, who is trying to make a hip with it film in the early seventies...

• It's All True

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