It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles (1993)

Original title

It's All True

Directed by

Richard Wilson

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 27m

Rated

G

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary tells the story of Orson Welles's unfinished film project from the 1940s, which was meant to be a multi-part anthology about the Americas. It explains why the film was abandoned and shows what was made.

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What happens

It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles is a 1993 documentary film about Orson Welles's ill-fated Pan-American anthology film It's All True, shot in 1941–42 but never completed. Written and directed by Richard Wilson, Bill Krohn and Myron Meisel, the film is narrated by Miguel Ferrer. It was named the year's Best Non-Fiction Film by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and its filmmakers received a special citation from the National Society of Film Critics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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