The Portuguese colony of Macao in the 19th century. Mr. Clay is a very rich merchant and the subject of town gossip. He has spent many years in China and is now quite old. He likes his clerk Levinsky to read the company's accounts to him at night for relaxation. Tonight Mr. Clay recounts a true story he heard years before about a rich man who paid a poor sailor 5 guineas to father a child with his beautiful young wife. Levinsky says that's a popular old sailor's legend and not true. Mr. Clay has no heir for his fortune and no wife either. He resolves to make the story true... Levinsky approaches Virginie, another clerk's mistress, and strikes a bargain for 300 guineas. Now to find the sailor...
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Jeanne Moreau | Virginie Ducrot |
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Orson Welles | Mr. Charles Clay |
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Roger Coggio | Elishama Levinsky |
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Norman Eshley | Paul / the sailor |
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Fernando Rey | Merchant telling Clay's history |
| Director | Orson Welles |
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| Writer | Karen Blixen, Orson Welles, Louise de Vilmorin | |
| Producer | Albina du Boisrouvray, Jacques-Bernard Dupont, Micheline Rozan | |
| Photography | Willy Kurant | |
| Nr Discs | 1 |
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| Screen Ratios | Widescreen (1.66:1) |
| Audio Tracks | Mono [English] |
| Distributor | Criterion Collection |
| Edition Release Date | Aug 30, 2016 |
| Regions | Region 1 |
| Watched | |
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| Index | 1876 |
| Added Date | Dec 25, 2016 16:41:17 |
| Modified Date | Jun 12, 2022 00:34:25 |
Christmas 2016 gift from Beth
Disc Features
New, restored 4K digital transfer of the English-language version of the film, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Alternate French-language version of the film
Audio commentary from 2005 featuring film scholar Adrian Martin
Portrait: Orson Welles, a 1968 documentary directed by François Reichenbach and Frédéric Rossif
New interview with actor Norman Eshley
Interview from 2004 with cinematographer Willy Kurant
New interview with Welles scholar François Thomas
PLUS: An essay by film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum
New cover by Sterling Hundley
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