Orson Welles

Detailing every release of the pioneering Black actor’s five feature films Musician, jockey, prizefighter, stage and screen star, humanitarian, icon Talent and fearless activism renowned by Hollywood and political elite …

Production and home video Director’s cameo even more discreet continuation of that for Lifeboat One of the five “missing Hitchcocks” hardly seen for almost two decades 1985–2025: Forty years and …

Soundtrack and remakes Realistic: Score is Hitch’s canny exercise in minimalism Back at sea: Film’s star returns for the only radio version Sci-fi: Three quasi-remakes transpose story to outer space …

Soundtrack and remakes Intact: first Hitchcock not to suffer any censor or distributor cuts Tiomkin score makes ironic use of then popular Merry Widow Waltz Story spawned many radio adaptations and screen quasi-remakes …

Soundtrack and radio Among the Master’s very best scores: Waxman’s timeless opus was Oscar-nominated Franz Waxman scored over 160 classic films, many iconic, but loved Rebecca the most Even better …

Production Blockbuster: über-producer David O. Selznick’s big budget follow-up to Gone with the Wind To helm the successor to the biggest film of all time, he imported Britain’s biggest director …

1935–1939 He marches triumphant through the 1930s, topping it with cinema’s biggest prize Iconic: Stars in Alfred Hitchcock’s best film and a blueprint for his later success Followed with dual …

1932–1934 Shooting star: By his late 20s, Robert Donat had assumed leading man status Sadly, his first two films are lost and the third is a shadow of its former …

Art imitates life in the Master’s timeless tale of wartime espionage It plunges ordinary folk into exceptional, dangerous circumstances Polar opposites learn to unite and fight against a common enemy …

Class meets crass and both cruelly trample on innocent dreams One of the Master’s best British films but it’s often unfairly overlooked Class system injustice is laid bare in a …