The Business
"Orson Welles's Last Movie;" Battling Runaway Production
Journalist Josh Karp tells us why the Orson Welles movie The Other Side of the Wind has been so troubled for decades. And KCRW's Saul Gonzalez checks in on California's latest attempt to keep movie-making in Hollywood.
By Kim Masters • • 29m ListenOrson Welles' final film, The Other Side of the Wind, remains unfinished and unseen to this day. Josh Karp has written a book about the making of that film, and all the many difficulties that plagued the production. He tells us how the Shah of Iran's brother-in-law ended up partially financing the film, and fills us in on the most recent attempt to finish the movie.
