bappamtv

The Hearts of Age

The Hearts of Age

1934Short⏱️ 8mTV-Y
Short
5.4
IMDB Rating
1,326 votes

A colonial scene in the U.S. An old lady sits astride a bell while a man in blackface, wig, and livery pulls the bell rope. From an upper door emerges an old man, dressed as a dandy, who tips his hat to the woman as he walks down ...

Director
N/A
Writers
N/A
Stars
Orson Welles, Virginia Nicolson, William Vance
Release Date
August 6, 1983
Language
None
Country
United States
💬 14
Reviews
📽️ View on IMDB

🎭 Top Cast

Orson Welles
Orson Welles
as Death
👤
Virginia Nicolson
as Old woman
👤
William Vance
as Indian in blanket
👤
Edgerton Paul
as Bell-ringer in blackface

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio
1.33 : 1
Sound
Silent
Color
Black and White
Filming Location
Woodstock, Illinois 60098, USA

🏷️ Keywords

male police officerpolicepolice officerblackfacepiano

🎯 Categories

Short

⭐ Featured Review

Worth Seeing
by mmrabin2004-03-15

"although I couldn't come up w/ as piquant a one-line summary as "vaginal bells," "worth seeing" is a fair appraisal. Welles himself said this film was nothing more than a student movie, a lampooning of surrealist cinema; so take the short for what it is: interesting, and maybe hinting at cinematic things to come. however, investing it w/ impenetrable, pseudo-freudian psychosexual crappola---as one reviewer does---is absurd. that kind of drivel simply gives film criticism a bad name. "the explicit representation of all the destructive/ obstructive forces that w..."

💡 Did You Know?

Orson Welles's first film.

📖 Synopsis

A colonial scene in the U.S. An old lady sits astride a bell while a man in blackface, wig, and livery pulls the bell rope. From an upper door emerges an old man, dressed as a dandy, who tips his hat to the woman as he walks down ...