The Best Episodes of Around the World with Orson Welles

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   7.8/10(15 votes)

   #1 - Revisiting Vienna

   S1:E311/4/1955

   Welles revisits Vienna, the setting of one of his most famous films, and one of his greatest performances as the unforgettable Harry Lime in Carol Reed's The Third Man.

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   7.5/10(47 votes)

   #2 - Pays Basque I: The Basque Countries

   S1:E110/7/1955

   Welles takes the viewer to the Basque countryside, a remote corner of Europe on the border of Spain and France. He interviews American expatriates and a Basque sheepherder who returned to Europe after spending 23 years in Colorado.

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   7.5/10(27 votes)

   #3 - Spain: The Bullfight

   S1:E612/16/1955

   Welles and Mr and Mrs Kenneth Tynan travel to Madrid to explain the nuts and bolts of bullfighting.

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   7.4/10(37 votes)

   #4 - Pays Basque II: La Pelote Basque

   S1:E210/21/1955

   Welles continues his tour of the Basque region of France and Spain and learns about the game of pelota and some of its variants — jai alai, joko garbi, and rebot.

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   7.4/10(38 votes)

   #5 - Saint-Germain-des-Pres

   S1:E411/18/1955

   Welles travels to Paris, where his visit to the Saint Germain des Pres neighborhood is chronicled by newspaper columnist Art Buchwald. Welles interviews an artist, poets inventing new letters to describe sounds and night clubs featuring musicians playing hot jazz.

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   7.2/10(27 votes)

   #6 - London: The Queen's Pensioners

   S1:E512/2/1955

   Welles travels to London to visit an alms house in Hackney for indigent widows created in the 1600s and an old soldier's Chelsea home.

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   7.0/10(14 votes)

   #7 - France: The Tragedy of Lurs

   S1:E74/12/2003

   The Dominici affair is a criminal case that occurred in France in the mid-20th century, which gave rise to detailed counter-investigations, emblematic of investigative journalism. On the night of August 4 to 5, 1952, three Englishmen, Sir Jack Drummond, a 61-year-old scientist, his wife Anne Wilbraham, 45, and their 10-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, were murdered near their car near La Grand. 'Terre, the farm of the Dominici family, in the town of Lurs in the Basses-Alpes (current Alpes-de-Haute-Provence). Patriarch Gaston Dominici was accused of the triple murder and sentenced to death in 1954. In 1957, President René Coty commuted the death sentence and on July 14, 1960, General de Gaulle pardoned and released Gaston Dominici. The affair was followed by numerous journalists, both French and foreign. The episode was ultimately unfinished, but French filmmaker Christophe Cognet recovered his materials and reconstructed the documentary for TV5 broadcast in 2003.

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