The bravura opening shot of Orson Welles‘ "Touch of Evil ... you'd have to go back to 1948 and Welles' masterful Shakespeare adaptation "Macbeth," a film that not only contains the ...

a curious adaptation of Macbeth, directed by a dramaturgical wunderkind named Orson Welles under the aegis of the Federal Theater Project, a New Deal program designed to help support the arts.

Orson Welles had a personal connection to the film ... Welles also directed versions of Macbeth and Othello in which he took on the title roles, and did about as great of a job breathing life ...

Before Hollywood director Orson Welles ascended to fame as producer ... to direct the first all-Black cast production of Macbeth on the stage. Houseman, along with co-director Rose McClendon ...

Writer, film and theatre director, Orson Welles takes the hot seat in this ... his reasons for staging Macbeth with an all-black cast, and his political ambitions. BBC interviews with influential ...