VIDEO : Venice Film Festival: Lost Orson Welles Film to Get Pre-Opening Showcase

The Venice International Film Festival will dedicate its pre-opening events on September 1 to Orson Welles, to mark the centennial of his birth.
His Venetian films will find new life at the festival, with screenings of new restorations of The Merchant of Venice (1969) and Othello (1951).
The Merchant of Venice was conceived for a television special, but when CBS stopped financing the film, it remained unfinished. Welles, who plays Shylock in the film, said in 1960, ?I?ve always felt a special sympathy for Shylock and I?ve wanted to communicate that sympathy to a loving audience.?