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Macbeth **** (1948, Orson Welles, Jeanette Nolan, Dan O’Herlihy) – Classic Movie Review 773

Orson Welles’s 1948 film version of William Shakespeare’s great tragedy is highly intelligent and extremely watchable, even if it’s unattractively studio-bound and suffers from its low budget ($70,000), quick filming (21 days) cheap sets (designed […]

Jan, 30

The Lady from Shanghai ***** (1947, Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane) – Classic Movie Review 747

Dusting himself off in 1947 after all his troubles on Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons, Orson Welles writes, produces, directs and stars in the teasing, exhilarating 1947 film noir tour de force The Lady […]

Jan, 25

The Magnificent Ambersons ***** (1942, Tim Holt, Joseph Cotten, Dolores Costello, Agnes Moorehead, Anne Baxter, Ray Collins) – Classic Movie Review 743

Orson Welles lost control of his 1942 film The Magnificent Ambersons to RKO, who cut more than an hour of footage and shot a happier ending. Film-maker Brian Rose has revealed his plan to restore […]

Jan, 24

The Third Man ***** (1949, Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee, Wilfrid Hyde White) – Classic Movie Review 170

‘In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, and they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherhood and 500 years of democracy […]

Aug, 17

Touch of Evil ***** (1958, Charlton Heston, Orson Welles, Janet Leigh) – Classic Movie Review 144

‘He was some kind of a man. What does it matter what you say about people?’ Orson Welles’s dark, dangerous and dastardly thriller is set in a seedy town on the Mexican border. Charlton Heston […]

Aug, 10

Citizen Kane ***** (1941, Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Everett Sloane, Erskine Sanford) – Classic Movie Review 25

Citizen Kane (1941) is the cinema’s Hamlet. All that has to be done to defend it against attacks from the philistines is to screen it as often as possible to the young, the curious, the […]

Jul, 06

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