Orson Welles' Long Anticipated 'Other Side Of The Wind' Is Finally Finished

Copyright 2018 Fresh Air. To see more, visit Fresh Air . TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. For nearly four decades, the world's most famous incomplete film was "The Other Side Of The Wind," which Orson Welles began shooting in the early 1970s and hadn't finished editing at the time of his death. With financing from Netflix, a team of producers and editors has at last assembled a final cut of the film, which stars John Huston as an aged director on the last day of his life and a cast that includes Peter Bogdanovich. It opens in select theaters tomorrow when it will also be on Netflix. Critic David Edelstein has this review. DAVID EDELSTEIN, BYLINE: When Orson Welles died in 1985 at age 70, "The Other Side Of The Wind" was incomplete. He'd shot it all - 100 hours over several years in the mid-1970s, with production stopping each time the money ran out. But the movie would come together or not in the editing room. And with only about 30 percent done, the footage was locked away in a