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Watched: 01/12/2025
Format: Criterion Disc
Viewing: Second
Director: Orson Welles/ others/ Robert Wise - some scenes
This year we're going to try to watch every film we can find directed by American film-director Robert Wise. We will watch them in order of release.
Wise is the director of innumerable, truly great movies, but it's odd how rarely he gets discussed by film fans. From film noir like The House on Telegraph Hill to the classic that is The Sound of Music and the ever-controversial Star Trek: The Motion Picture to one of the scariest movies I've ever seen, The Haunting - our fellow has range.
Starting our journey with The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), famously an Orson Welles directed movie, will seem odd. However, it seems Wise first got to direct during re-shoots for the ending of the movie, something allowed him as Welles was in Brazil on behalf of the Good Neighbor program instituted during WWII by FDR shooting a different movie for RKO.