Chimes at midnight
DVD - 2016
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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- Genres
- Film adaptations
Feature films
Comedy films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[Irvington, N.Y.] :
The Criterion Collection
[2016]
- Language
- English
- Other Authors
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- Edition
- Widescreen
- Item Description
- Photography, Edmund Richard ; music, Alberto Lavagnino.
Adapted from four plays 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 1966.
Widescreen (1.66:1).
Special features: Audio commentary featuring film scholar James Naremore, author of "The magic world of Orson Wells"; 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"; Trailer. - Physical Description
- 2 videodiscs (116 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen.
- Production Credits
- Photography, Edmond Righard, music, Angelo Francesco Lavagnino ; editor, Fritz Mueller.
- ISBN
- 9781681431918
- disc 1. Feature film
- disc 2. Supplements.