Othello

Orson Welles stars as the eponymous Moor in this on-the-cheap B&W production. Not Welles's finest hour (and a half). There might be some good ideas here, but the poor quality of the film stock and audio get in the way of appreciating it as much as we should be able to. Also, the actor who plays Iago doesn't seem charismatic enough to fool Othello and the war backdrop to the entire story should be better and more prominently portrayed. And for whatever reason, I think the play works best when both Iago and Emilia are hot, but here they're not, they're so not.