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Back in October of 1938, a radio broadcast titled, "The War of the Worlds" as narrated by Orson Welles sent a portion of the American populace into a panic. People listening to the program thought that a real Martian invasion was in progress and ran for the hills. Others hid underneath their beds and waited for Armageddon to arrive. By morning, all was well because... it was just a radio drama. The...
“Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad, except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up” -Orson Welles Forbes Magazine has an interesting site online, I've dipped into it a few times in the past. Recently they had two articles that are somewhat related involving automobiles. In the United States you can't buy a car for much less than $11,000. That's just the absolute bottom line,
"It's All True" was the title of an unfinished Orson Welles documentary about South America shot in 1942. Welles was asked by Nelson Rockefeller to make the film to support the war effort, and as part of the Good Neighbor Policy and was sent down to Brazil to shoot the footage on location. RKO Radio Pictures quickly cut the funding for the project after dissatisfaction with the way the project was...
DVDactive has the details on Universal Home Video’s 50th Anniversary edition of Orson Welles’ noir masterpiece, Touch Of Evil . The 2-disc set will include a restored version (1 Hour 51 Minutes), the theatrical version (1 Hour 36 Minutes), and a preview version (1 Hour 49 Minutes) of the film. Each will be presented in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen, along with English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono tracks....
James Cagney Favorite Films: The Public Enemy (William A. Wellman, 1931), Footlight Parade (Lloyd Bacon, 1933), White Heat (Raoul Walsh, 1949), One, Two, Three (Billy Wilder, 1961) Joseph Cotton Favorite Films: Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941), Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock, 1943), Gaslight (George Cukor, 1944), The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949) Alain Delon Favorite Films: Rocco and His Brothers...
Question: There was a hauntingly beautiful song for a wine ad done by Orson Welles in the late '70s. In the ad he said, "We will sell no wine before its time." Do you know who performed this song?
“Ladies, this is Jack, the man who hosts Haveil Havalim!” Haveil Havalim # 173: The Wait for Avrech to Name it Edition is up and live, and hosted by the ever resourceful Jack. Gee willikers, more work! Well, as Orson Welles used to say at the end of his Mercury Theater broadcasts: “I am your obedient servant.” Haveil Havalim #173: The Evelyn Keyes Edition. Evelyn Keyes 1916 - 2008 Actress Evelyn Keyes...
The name of the film is Black Magic , it was released in 1949, and it stars Orson Welles in one of his most flamboyant performances as Joseph Balsamo, aka Cagliostro, the hypnotist/charlatan whose schemes in pursuit of wealth and power were a factor in bringing about the French Revolution. I am delighted to report that TCM will be screening this rarity on the morning of July 14th (Bastille Day) at...
THE STRANGER is a small masterpiece: 95 minutes of nailbiting black and white suspense, stylishly directed by Orson Welles and acted with gusto by Welles, Loretta Young, and Edward G. Robinson. I love watching Robinson play a cagey good guy, and he's wonderful in this film as an investigator on the trail of an infamous Nazi war criminal (Welles) who is hiding under a new identity as a teacher in a...
Orson Welles' TOUCH OF EVIL , also starring Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh, will be released in a two-disc 50th Anniversary Edition next October 7th. The previous DVD release contained Welles' 111-minute cut. The new release will include three separate edits of the film. Along with Welles' cut, a "preview" version and the original theatrical release version will be part of the DVD set. Other extras...
News: Universal Studios Home Video have announced the Region 1 DVD release of Touch of Evil (50th Anniversary Edition) on 7th October 2008 priced at $26.98 SRP. Orson Welles' film noir portrait of corruption and morally-compromised obsessions returns to DV...
A short conversation between Orson Welles and H.G. Wells (MP3) aired live on KTSA radio in San Antonio on October 28, 1940. The main subjects are the Welles' radio production of Wells' "War of the Worlds," from two years prior, the accuracy of Wells' science fiction, and a Wells-incited plug for Welles' "Citizen Kane." (Via Alan Dean Foster's remembrance of Arthur C. Clarke in the July/August 2008...
So Sadr is in position to be mayor and warlord at the same time. Lord, he must laugh his Orson Welles beard off when he reads these ignorant U.S. military “analysts” saying he’s renouncing violence. Sadr’s answer was clear, from that announcement he made in mid-June: He’s going to divide the movement into two parts, just [...]
