Movie: The Fountain of Youth

Top 8 Billed Cast

Marjorie Bennett
Marjorie Bennett

journalist

Madge Blake
Madge Blake

journalist

Billy House
Billy House

Albert Morgan

Rick Jason
Rick Jason

Alan Brody

Nancy Kulp
Nancy Kulp

Stella Morgan

Joi Lansing
Joi Lansing

Carolyn Coates

Dan Tobin
Dan Tobin

Humphrey Baxter

Orson Welles
Orson Welles

the narrator

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    A darkly comic fable about vanity and desire, "The Fountain of Youth" follows a newly married couple whose relationship is destabilized by the arrival of a potion that promises centuries of youth and beauty—but in a quantity sufficient for only one person. As temptation and resentment grow, the gift becomes a catalyst for moral and emotional collapse. Written, directed, and narrated by Orson Welles and based on John Collier’s short story “Youth from Vienna,” the film uses stylized narration and experimental visual techniques to construct a compact essay on human vanity. (Note: Originally produced in 1956 as a television pilot and broadcast once in 1958 as part of NBC’s Colgate Theatre anthology series (S1E5); it later achieved independent archival and cultural status, including a 1958 Peabody Award.)

  • Release Date

    1958-09-16

  • Average

    6.1

  • Rating:

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    English
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