Orson Welles Heart Of Darkness
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Orson Welles' Heart of Darkness Unmade Movies The broadcast premiere of Orson Welles’ unproduced screenplay of Joseph Conrad's celebrated novel. Staring James McAvoy. It's the 1890s and Mr Kurtz, one of the senior agents of an Ivory trading company, has disappeared. Marlow, a skipper, is hired to take a steamship up the Congo River to find him. But the further he and the other company men travel up river, the greater the sense of impending danger, and the more disturbing the rumours that begin to circulate about Kurtz. But truth is more terrifying than any of them imagined. Heart of Darkness is part of Unmade Movies, a season of radio adaptions of unproduced screenplays by the major authors of the 20th century - including Harold Pinter, Arthur Miller, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock and Ernest Lehman. Orson Welles wrote this screenplay in 1939, with the intention of directing and starring as both Marlow and Kurtz. After founding the Mercury Theatre in 1937, his celebrated production of Julius Caesar and his radio adaption of The War of The Worlds established him as a major talent. RKO Pictures then signed a deal with him to produce his first feature film. Welles intended this to be Heart of Darkness but the script proved to be too audacious for them - and his second script, Citizen Kane, was greenlit instead. Cast: Marlow...........James McAvoy Kurtz..............Jonathan Slinger Elsa................Phoebe Fox Blauer............Jo Stone-Fewings Eddie.............Max Bennett De Tirpitz / Melchers........John Heffernan Strunz............Elliott Levey Stitzer............Gerald Kyd Schulman / Steersman.....Seun Shote Meus.............Jack Holden A Screenplay by Orson Welles from the novel by Joseph Conrad Adapted for Radio by Jamie Lloyd and Laurence Bowen Music by Ben and Max Ringham Sound Design by Wilfredo Acosta Directed by Jamie Lloyd Produced by Laurence Bowen A Feelgood Fiction production for BBC Radio 4 Drama OTX: Sat 24 Oct 2015 14:30 BBC RADIO 4 FM
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.