
Film
One Man Band
1999 · 29m · Comedy
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- 7.2
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Overview
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.)
Cast

Orson Welles
Presenter / Various

Tim Brooke-Taylor
Reporter / Young Aristocrat

Charles Gray
Tailor

Jonathan Lynn
Tailor's Assistant

Oja Kodar
Nancy Astor

Graeme Garden
Various
Crew
- Orson WellesDirector · Writer · Editor
Details
- Release date
- October 23, 1999
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Runtime
- 29m
- Genres
- Comedy
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