When he finally ran out of funds, he dismissed the cast and crew and took roles in other movies to raise money, then reunited the cast and crew to shoot more footage until the money ran out again. Instead Welles emptied out his own bank account and started rolling, improvising costumes and sets. Usually everyone would have just gone home. So I had a company of fifty people in North Africa and no money." And then a telegram came saying that Scalera had gone bankrupt. A day later, a telegram came saying they hadn't been started. As Welles later recounted, ".we got a telegram saying the costumes wouldn't come because they hadn't been completed. And there they waited for the costumes to arrive. With Black Magic finished, Welles gathered a cast, crew and a detailed screenplay and brought them all to the town of Mogador on the coast of Morocco. Scalera, into backing a quicky production of Othello to be shot in Morocco. The movie was shot in Rome at Scalera Film Studios and, with his usual charm, Welles managed to talk the studio's owner, Mr. His appearance in The Third Man (1949) would be his most famous, but the one that got Othello started was when he played the hypnotist Cagliostro in Black Magic (1949). When that project collapsed, Welles became a roving actor on the many productions that sprang up on the Continent in the years after World War II. It was originally intended for release a year after Macbeth but the delay the film suffered made for one of the strangest stories in the history of moviemaking.īefore he was even finished editing Macbeth, Welles had left America for Europe, having received a job offer to direct a movie of Cyrano de Bergerac for producer Alexander Korda. Almost four years passed between the premiere of Orson Welles' first adaptation of Shakespeare for the screen, Macbeth (1948) and the premiere of his second, Othello (1952).
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