Black Magic

…few scenes) in Gregory Ratoff’s Black Magic (1949). He starred in other films, including Henry King’s Prince of Foxes (1949), as a colorful Cesare Borgia, and most famously Carol Reed’s classic thriller The Third Man (1949), as the amoral Harry Lime. Welles would spend much of the next 25 years…

…about the 18th-century magician Cagliostro, Black Magic (1949), was even better, with lead actor Orson Welles codirecting it uncredited.