Having begun his filmmaking career with the groundbreaking Citizen Kane, Orson Welles conjured up, in the last decade of his life, another hugely innovative masterpiece.
The film has Director Terance Davies recalling his life growing up in Liverpool in the 1950's and 1960's, using newsreel and documentary footage supplemented by his own commentary voice-over and contemporaneous and classical musical soundtracks.
Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti), the power-hungry owner of a railroad company, hires Frank (Henry Fonda, playing against type), a gunfighter without a conscience, to kill anyone who stands in the way of the completion of the railroad.
Cavalcanti's wartime film, based on a story by Graham Greene, still unsettles, even shocks, with its subversive, almost surreal spectacle of a cosy English village under Nazi attack in the Second World War.