Othello / [Westchester Films, Inc. and World Entertainment, Inc. in association with Beatrice Welles Smith present ; produced and directed by Orson Welles].
Edition:
Two-Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
2 videodiscs (93, 91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (illustrations)
Container of (work): Othello (Motion picture : 1951) Return to Glennascaul. Souvenirs D'"Othello."
Notes:
Credits from container. 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). Originally screened with a dubbed-Italian soundtrack in Rome, Italy, in 1951; English-language European version originally released as a motion picture in 1952; U.S. and U.K. version originally released as a motion picture in 1955. Based on the play by William Shakespeare. Full screen (1.37:1). Special features: new, restored 4K digital transfers of two versions of the film, the 1952 European one and the 1955 U.S. and UK one, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks; 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; an essay by film critic Geoffrey O'Brien.
Contents:
Disc 2. Special features. Tragedy of Othello : 1955 version (93 min.) ; Tragedy of Othello : 1955 version (91 min.) -- Disc 2. Special features.
Summary:
Shakespeare's Iago tells the jealous Moor of Venice that his wife, Desdemona, has been unfaithful.
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