Tag: orson welles

Monsieur Verdoux Script

Script by:Charlie Chaplin (Writer), Orson Welles (Idea)
Directed by:Charlie Chaplin
Year:1947
IMDb:tt0039631

Plot:The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.
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The Stranger Script

Script by:Anthony Veiller (Screenplay), Victor Trivas (Original Story), Gladys Hill (Dialogue)
Directed by:Orson Welles
Year:1946
IMDb:tt0038991

Plot:A man working for the War Crimes Commission suspects that an important Nazi official has folded himself into a quaint Connecticut town.
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Journey Into Fear Script

Script by:Orson Welles (Screenplay), Joseph Cotten (Screenplay), Ben Hecht (Screenplay), Eric Ambler (Novel), Richard Collins (Screenplay)
Directed by:Norman Foster
Year:1943
IMDb:tt0034922

Plot:An American ballistics expert in Turkey finds himself targeted by Nazi agents. Safe passage home by ship is arranged for him, but he soon discovers that his pursuers are also on board.
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Touch of Evil Script

Script by:Whit Masterson (Novel), Orson Welles (Screenplay)
Directed by:Orson Welles
Year:1958
IMDb:tt0052311

Plot:When a car bomb explodes on the American side of the U.S./Mexico border, Mexican drug enforcement agent Miguel Vargas begins his investigation, along with American police captain Hank Quinlan. When Vargas begins to suspect that Quinlan and his shady partner, Menzies, are planting evidence to frame an innocent man, his investigations into their possible corruption quickly put himself and his new bride, Susie, in jeopardy.
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Citizen Kane Script

Script by:Orson Welles (Screenplay), Herman J. Mankiewicz (Screenplay), Roger Q. Denny (Writer), John Houseman (Writer), Mollie Kent (Writer)
Directed by:Orson Welles
Year:1941
IMDb:tt0033467

Plot:Newspaper magnate, Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
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