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Jeanne Moreau
Virginie Ducrot
Orson Welles
Charles Clay
Roger Coggio
Elishama Levinsky
Norman Eshley
Paul, the sailor
Fernando Rey
Merchant
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Review 1DiscussionA review by rooprect
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Written by rooprect on Fri May 30 2025
The 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 tak...
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Keywords
- legend
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