Falstaff : (Chimes at midnight) / Harry Saltzman presents ; produced by Emiliano Piedra and Angel Escolano for Internacional Films Espanola, S.A. ; directed by Orson Welles.
Edition:
Two-DVD special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
2 videodiscs (116 min.) : DVD video, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert.
Title from title frame. Based on works by William Shakespeare: Henry IV, Henry V, Richard II, and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Originally released as a motion picture under title: Campanadas a medianoche = Chimes at midnight = Falstaff in 1965. English language version released by Peppercorn Wormser, Inc. in 1967. Narration based on Holinshed's Chronicles spoken by Ralph Richardson. Special features on disc one: Audio commentary featuring film scholar James Naremore, author of "The magic world of Orson Wells"; Trailer ; on disc two: New interview with actor Keith Baxter; New interview with director Orson Welle's daughter Beatrice Welles, who appeared in the film at age seven; New interview with film historian Joseph McBride, author of "What ever happended to Orson Welles?"; Interview with Welles while at work editing the film, from a 1965 episode of "The Merv Griffin Show". Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Margaret Rutherford, John Gielgud, Marina Vlady, Walter Chiari, Micheael Aldrich, Julio Pena, Tony Beckley, Andres Mejuto, Keith Pyott, Jeremy Rowe, Alan Webb, Fernando Rey, Keith Baxter Norman Rodway, Jose Nieto, Andrew Favlds, Charles Farrel, Fernando Hilbeck, Paddy Bedford, Beatrice Welles.
Contents:
disc one. [Feature film + trailer] -- disc two. [Supplements].
Summary:
The crowning achievement of Orson Welles's extraordinary film career that was the culmination of the filmmaker's lifelong obsession with Shakespeare's ultimate rapscallion, Sir John Falstaff. Usually a comic supporting figure, Falstaff; the loyal, often soused friend of King Henry IV's wayward son Prince Hal, here becomes the focus: a robustly funny and ultimately tragic screen antihero played by Welles with looming, lumbering grace.
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