An embedded video can be viewed below, on our Video: Career Milestones page, or on YouTube.
Based on John Collier’s story Youth from Vienna, the 28-minute short was a pilot for a proposed anthology series.
The Fountain of Youth starred Dan Tobin, Joi Lansing, and Rick Jason. Tobin and Lansing would work again with Welles in The Other Side of the Wind and Touch of Evil, respectively. Jason’s recollections of working with Welles are hardly flattering and are contained in the Combat actor’s autobiography Scrapbooks of My Mind.
Filmed for Desilu in 1956, the television film is now owned by Paramount Pictures. The late Gary Graver, Welles’ longtime cinematographer, told Wellesnet’s Ray Kelly in 2006 that Paramount believes there is no commercial market for the short film on home video.
Until Paramount one day releases The Fountain of Youth, this will have to suffice.
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