Orson Welles and Nico...

This is a brilliant moment of art from the internet mash-up age. Someone simply thought to blend Nico (singing 'The End") to the lost footage from Orson Welles "Don Quixote." The scene in itself is brilliant, but with the addition of the music it reaches into the heart...might take a couple of viewings but Orson, in  a scene that never made into any final movie, proves his brilliance once again...

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[james J. Cremin]

Akim Tamiroff was one of my favorite character actors. I believe he's the one feedin his fat face while he sits next to the little girl.

He's also the poor dude that Welles is merciless to in "Force of Evil." Probably payback for being such a punk to Gary Cooper in "For Whom the Bells Tolls." Was he supposed to be Sancho Panza?

Any historical character of earler times would be freaked out with our modern inventions. However, Don Quixote was no more historical than D'Artuguan or Sherlock Holmes were. Plus he famously dueled with wind mills.

That must be the allegory. Ironically, in this day and age, Welles could now make millions of his little movies and would have gotten away with it.

That would have kept his cameos to truly obnoxious movies, some of which he was truly obnoxious himself, to a medium.

But then, he probably wouldn't have appeared in The Third Man.