Othello (1952) - (Movie Clip) My Heart Upon My Sleeve

Othello (1952) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Funeral

The opening as the writer, director and star wanted it, not from the Shakespeare, without dialogue, Orson Welles in the title role at his own funeral, which is also that of his wife Desdemona (Suzanne Cloutier), with the villain Iago (Michael MacLiammoir) in a cage, in Othello, 1952.

Othello (1952) -- (Movie Clip) There Was Once In Venice

Framed by his own funeral, the writer director and star Orson Welles narrates his own redaction from Shakespeare, introducing himself, his bride Desdemona (Suzanne Cloutier), and her hapless suitor Roderigo (Robert Coote) with treacherous Iago (Michael MacLiammoir), in Othello 1952.

Othello (1952) -- (Movie Clip) It Is The Green-Eyed Monster

Returned from war and manipulated by his evil aide Iago (Michael MacLiammoir), Orson Welles (writer, director and star, as Shakespeare’s Moorish Venetian general) reluctantly begins to doubt the fidelity of his wife Desdemona (Suzanne Cloutier), in Othello, 1952.