Don Quixote (unfinished film)

Don Quixote or Don Quixote de Orson Welles is an unfinished film project produced, written and directed by Orson Welles. Principal photography was between 1957 and 1969 while test footage was filmed as early as 1955, secondunit photography was done as late as 1972, and Welles was working on the film on and off until his death in 1985.

Welles shot colour test footage in the Bois de Boulogne with Russianborn American actor Mischa Auer as Don Quixote and Russian character actor Akim Tamiroff as Sancho Panza Auer had previously acted in Welles Mr. Arkadin, while Tamiroff had first worked with Welles on Black Magic, and had appeared in Welles film Mr. Arkadin and would appear in his later films Touch of Evil and The Trial. It was the first time Welles had filmed in colour since the illfated production of Its All True in 1942. However, representatives from CBS viewed unedited film and were unhappy with Welles concept, cancelling the project. The original colour test shots with Auer were subsequently lost, and are no longer believed to exist.Welles decided to push ahead by expanding the production into a feature film, made in black and white. Singeractor Frank Sinatra an old friend who Welles had first befriended when the two were newcomers to Hollywood in the early 1940s invested US25,000 in the new film, with Welles providing additional selffunding derived from his work as an actor. ........

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