Othello / Westchester Films, Inc and World Entertainment, Inc. ; in association with Beatrice Welles Smith present ; a film by Orson Welles ; produced and directed by Orson Welles.
Edition:
1955 version ; DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; full screen.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in..
Released as part of a 3 disc set which also included the 1952 version and the documentary Filming "Othello", which are cataloged together in a separate container. Title from container. Originally released as a motion picture in the United States in 1955. Orson Welles (Othello), Micheál MacLiammóir (Iago), Suzanne Cloutier (Desdemona), Robert Coote (Roderigo), Fay Compton (Emilia), Hilton Edwards (Brabantio), Nicholas Bruce (Lodovico), Michael Laurence (Cassio), Doris Dowling (Bianca). Filmed on location in Europe and North America.
Summary:
Dramatization of William Shakespeare's play in which the evil Iago plants the seeds of doubt in Othello's mind about Desdemona's fidelity.
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