The Immortal Story

  • Drama
  • Romance
  • TV Movie
6/1/1968
58

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An aged, wealthy trader plots with his servant to recreate a maritime tall tale, using a local woman and an unknown sailor as actors.

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  • rooprect

    The greatest story about storytelling from the greatest storyteller, "The Immortal Story" makes a challenging and profound statement while presenting itself as the simplest tale. It begins with an old sailor's yarn about a raggedy sailor who encounters a rich man and is paid a large sum of money to come to the rich man's house and perform a task. This story-within-the-story becomes the obsession of rich old Mr. Clay (Orson Welles) who, irritated at learning that it's only a legend, decides to make it really happen.

    What follows doesn't stray far from this simplest of plots, and yet as it takes us deeper into the drama, peeling back each character's motivations (there are only 4 characters in the entire film), we realize that this tale ex...

    May 30, 2025

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