Category: 25
All Genres: Mystery, Thriller
Release Year: 2006
Country: UK, Italy, Serbia
Runtime: 99
Rating: (0)
Languages: English, Italian
Director: Oliver Parker
Sound: Dolby Digital
Taglines:
Writing by: Davide Ferrario – book "Dissolvenza al nero"
Oliver Parker – writer
Produced by: Piero Amati – co-producer
Piero Amati – executive producer
Steve Christian – executive producer
Jimmy de Brabant – executive producer
Michael Dounaev – executive producer
Trevor Ingman – associate producer
Trevor Ingman – producer
Ralph Kamp – executive producer
Caroline Locardi – associate producer
Jonathan Olsberg – producer
Massimo Pacilio – producer: Italy
Umberto Sambuco – line producer
James Spring – executive producer
Barnaby Thompson – producer
Cast: Danny Huston – Orson Welles
Paz Vega – Lea Padovani
Christopher Walken – Brewster
Diego Luna – Tommaso
Anna Galiena – Aida
Nathaniel Parker – Viola
Violante Placido – Stella
Pino Ammendola – Gregory Ratoff
Daniel Cerqueira – 'Lucky' Luciano
Semeli Economou – Bianca
Kwame Kwei-Armah – Joe Black
Music: Charlie Mole
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: A character-driven horror film about a vampire who escapes from fifty years of captivity beneath the Mexican desert…
Plot: In an attempt to recover from his marriage to Rita Hayworth and restart his career, Orson Welles travels to Italy…only to be drawn into a dangerous web of intrigue, murder and politics when an actor is murdered on his set.
Movie Quotes: Private Robert Ortiez: Wouldn't it be funny if the devil looked just like you?
Hank Deerfield: Why don't you come over here! I'll show you what the devil looks like!
Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Halfway through the credits we see a photograph of a real life murder victim (supposedly the murdered soldier that Mike Deerfield was based on) with the words “For The Children” written underneath it.
Goofs: We know about 5 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Miscellaneous: The opening subtitle says that the Deerfields live in “Munro, Tennessee”, but the address on the side of Hank's truck says “Munroe, Tennessee”.
Trivia: There are 8 entries in the trivia list – like these:
- Originally a potential starring vehicle for Clint Eastwood.
- Takes its title from the Bible — Elah was the valley where David met Goliath.
- Josh Brolin replaced Tim McGraw in the role of Chief Buchwald.
