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One Man Band(1999)
Status: Released
Date: 1999-10-23
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1 Votes
Time: 0h 29m
Overview:
One Man Band (1999) is a posthumous archival reconstruction created by the Munich Film Museum from unfinished footage shot by Orson Welles between 1968 and 1971. The film assembles five comic vignettes—Churchill, Swinging London, Four Clubmen, Stately Homes, and Tailors—originally produced for Welles’s abandoned television project Orson’s Bag. Edited into a 29-minute composite short for festival exhibition, the film represents a curatorial reconstruction rather than a completed work authored or released by Welles. (Note: This is a posthumous archival assembly. The original unfinished project exists separately under the working titles London / Swinging London and was never completed or released by Orson Welles.)
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies: 
Movie: One Man Band
Top 6 Billed Cast
Orson Welles
Presenter / Various
Tim Brooke-Taylor
Reporter / Young Aristocrat
Charles Gray
Tailor
Jonathan Lynn
Tailor's Assistant
Graeme Garden
Various
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Overview
One Man Band (1999) is a posthumous archival reconstruction created by the Munich Film Museum from unfinished footage shot by Orson Welles between 1968 and 1971. The film assembles five comic vignettes—Churchill, Swinging London, Four Clubmen, Stately Homes, and Tailors—originally produced for Welles’s abandoned television project Orson’s Bag. Edited into a 29-minute composite short for festival exhibition, the film represents a curatorial reconstruction rather than a completed work authored or released by Welles. (Note: This is a posthumous archival assembly. The original unfinished project exists separately under the working titles London / Swinging London and was never completed or released by Orson Welles.)
Release Date
1999-10-23
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Languages:
English
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