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Release Date:
June 1955 (USA) more
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Powerful drama of uncontrolled human emotion! more
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Durante il periodo delle Repubbliche Marinare, in Italia, Otello, detto "il moro di Venezia", viene... more | add synopsis
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1 win & 1 nomination more
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One of the great Shakespeare films. more (24 total)

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Also Known As:
Othello (Australia) (France) (USA)
Otello (Italy)
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Runtime:
90 min | USA:93 min (TCM print)
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1.37 : 1 more
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Dolby (re-release) | Mono (RCA Sound System)
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Orson Welles provides the voice for much of Roderigo's dialogue. more
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Narrator: There was once in Venice a moor, Othello, who for his merits is the affairs of war was held in great esteem. It happened that he fell in love with a young and noble lady called Desdemona, who drawn by his virtue became equally enamoured of Othello...
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Referenced in Return to Glennascaul (1951) more

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One of the great Shakespeare films., 12 September 1999
Author: lime-3 from San Diego, CA, USA

I must be one of the few who saw this film (more than once!) before it vanished in the 60's. I saw it on TV in the last 50's, and later brought it to the small college where I was teaching 63-65. Though heavily cut and more than a little rearranged, it is one of the very finest of Shakespeare films. Performances are generally excellent and unified in style and diction. Welles, or course, is magnificent. Anyone who thinks he was never anything but a self-parodying ham has not seen this film. One could wish than MacLiammoir had had more overt FUN as Iago, who does what he does, in part at least, in an attempt to stimulate himself out of his blunted affect. The film also has some of the finest black-and-white cinematography of all time, and uses architecture in a unique and effective way.

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