Rent Othello (1951)
3.8 of 5 from 74 ratings
1h 30min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
The production began in 1948 but would not be completed untill four years later due to financial difficulties. Without full financing in place Welles would shoot until the money ran out, shut down production while he tried to raise more in acting roles, then reassemble the cast and crew months later. But typically the challenges presented by budgetary constraints only heightened Welles technical flair and imagination behind the camera, resulting in some of the most dramatic scenes and atmospheric scenes he ever shot. In front his portrayal of the doomed Moor was another powerful and charismatic performance. For many years the film was only available in poor prints until 1992 when an original negative was discovered and a $1 million restoration began. - Actors:
- Orson Welles, Micheál MacLiammóir, Robert Coote, Suzanne Cloutier, Hilton Edwards, Nicholas Bruce, Michael Laurence, Fay Compton, Doris Dowling, Abdullah Ben Mohamet, Joseph Cotten, Jean Davis, Joan Fontaine, Robert Rietty, Gudrun Ure
- Directors:
- Orson Welles
- Producers:
- Orson Welles, Walter Bedone, Patrice Dali, Rocco Facchini, Giorgio Papi
- Voiced By:
- Robert Rietty, Gudrun Ure
- Writers:
- William Shakespeare, Jean Sacha, Orson Welles
- Aka:
- The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice
- Studio:
- Second Sight
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Romance
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- Awards:
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 10/12/2018
- Run Time:
- 184 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.37:1
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Audio commentary from 1995 featuring filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich and Orson Welles scholar Myron Meisel
- Filming "Othello", Welles's last completed film, a 1979 essay-documentary
- Return to Glennascaul, a 1953 short film made by actors Micheal MacLiammoir and Hilton Edwards during a hiatus from shooting Othello
- New interview with Welles biographer Simon Callow
- Souvenirs d' "Othello", a 1995 documentary about actor Suzanne Cloutier by Francois Girard
- New interview with scholar Francois Thomas on the two versions
- New interview with Ayanna Thompson, author of Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America
- Interview from 2014 with scholar Joseph McBride
- Disc 1:
- This disc includes the following:
- Othello (1952) Version
- Special Features - Disc 2:
- This disc includes the following:
- Othello (1955) Version
- Special Features
