It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles
"It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles" is a 1993 documentary feature about Orson Welles's ill-fated Pan-American anthology film "It's All True," shot in 1941-42 but never completed.
- Rated
- G
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Released
- 1993
- Country
- France, United States
Details
Release year: 1993
Storyline
"It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles" is a 1993 documentary feature about Orson Welles's ill-fated Pan-American anthology film "It's All True," shot in 1941-42 but never completed.
Top credits
- Manuel 'Jacare' Olimpio Meira — Self
- Jeronimo André De Souza — Self
- Raimundo 'Tata' Correia Lima — Self
- Manuel 'Preto' Pereira da Silva — Self
Did you know
• Though the filmed footage was edited and released, as of today there is reportedly a very large amount of footage not used still in the UCLA archives that is slowly becoming damaged for lack of preservation.
• The black-and-white portions of this film were filmed in 1942, when Orson Welles was asked by Nelson Rockefeller to make a "goodwill" film documentary about South America. RKO assumed Welles' film would resemble an innocuous travelogue; instead, he began to film a documentary about ordinary daily life in Brazil. Legends (ultimately proved untrue) sprang up about Welles' riotous behavior in Brazil, and RKO pulled the plug on the film after a fatal accident involving fishermen. For years, the original footage was considered lost, but what was left was eventually found in the Paramount stock footage library and edited into this 1993 release.
• Welles died in 1985 without seeing the surviving footage from "It's All True."
Box Office
Gross (Domestic): $86,980
User reviews
A Resurrected Lost Work
What remains of Orson Welles' It's All True is quite fascinating to watch
orson's thoughts
Technical specs
- Sound mix
- Dolby
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- Color
- Black and White, Color
