Short film
An Evening with Orson Welles: The Happy Prince
1970 · 30 min
It feels like sitting in a quiet studio watching a magnetic, older showman perform a tender, sorrowful fairy tale by lamplight.
- Directed by
- Orson Welles
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Orson Welles
- Overview
- A half-hour studio reading in which Orson Welles performs Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince, created for Sears’ Cartrivision home-video system.
- How it feels
- Melancholic, warm and earnest. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
- About
- Grief, class, death, morality
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Orson Welles
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Orson Welles
