One Man Band

Story

Synopsis

One Man Band (1999) is a posthumous archival reconstruction created by the Munich Film Museum from unfinished footage shot by Orson Welles between 1968 and 1971. The film assembles five comic vignettes—Churchill, Swinging London, Four Clubmen, Stately Homes, and Tailors—originally produced for Welles’s abandoned television project Orson’s Bag. Edited into a 29-minute composite short for festival exhibition, the film represents a curatorial reconstruction rather than a completed work authored or released by Welles. (Note: This is a posthumous archival assembly. The original unfinished project exists separately under the working titles London / Swinging London and was never completed or released by Orson Welles.)

Director

Orson Welles

Writers

Orson Welles

Language

English

Country

United States of America

Release date

23 October 1999

Ensemble

Cast

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  Orson Welles

  Presenter / Various

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  Tim Brooke-Taylor

  Reporter / Young Aristocrat

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  Charles Gray

  Tailor

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  Jonathan Lynn

  Tailor's Assistant

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  Oja Kodar

  Nancy Astor

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  Graeme Garden

  Various