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American Beauty
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The Immortal Story (1968)
September 18, 196858mEN
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Overview
An aged, wealthy trader plots with his servant to recreate a maritime tall tale, using a local woman and an unknown sailor as actors.
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Orson WellesWriters
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English
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Albina ProductionsORTF
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10.0The greatest story about storytelling from the greatest storyteller, "The Immortal Story" makes a challenging and profound statement while presenting itself as the simplest tale. It begins with an old sailor's yarn about a raggedy sailor who encounters a rich man and is paid a large sum of money to come to the rich man's house and perform a task. This story-within-the-story becomes the obsession of rich old Mr. Clay (Orson Welles) who, irritated at learning that it's only a legend, decides to make it really happen. What follows doesn't stray far from this simplest of plots, and yet as it ta…
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