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Chimes at Midnight (Spanish: Campanadas a medianoche, released in most of Europe as Falstaff) is a 1966 period comedy-drama film written, directed by, and starring Orson Welles. Its plot centers on William Shakespeare 's recurring character Sir John Falstaff and his fatherly relationship with Prince Hal , who must choose loyalty to Falstaff or ...
Chimes at Midnight: Directed by Orson Welles. With Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Margaret Rutherford, John Gielgud. When King Henry IV ascends to the throne, his heir, the Prince of Wales, is befriended by Sir John Falstaff, an old, overweight, fun-loving habitual liar.
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- Comedy, Drama, History
- Orson Welles
- 1967-03-17
Jun 4, 2006 · Welles shot on location in Spain, in winter; his first shot shows Falstaff as a tiny figure in a vast field of snow, his last shows Falstaff's coffin being pushed across snow toward his grave, and in several of John Gielgud's speeches as Henry IV, we can see the frost on his breath.
May 23, 2009 · Angelo Francesco Lavagnino’s magnificent score for Orson Welles’s CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT. In these excerpts from Sir John Gielgud's wonderful book, A Life in Letters, which covers his entire career from 1930 to 1999, we get to see how his view of.
The crowning achievement of Orson Welles’s extraordinary cinematic career, Chimes at Midnight 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 ...
- John Falstaff
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Henry IV (John Gielgud) usurps the English throne, sets in motion the factious War of the Roses and now faces a rebellion led by Northumberland scion Hotspur (Norman Rodway).
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- History, Drama
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Jan 5, 2016 · In the meantime, though, the Janus “Chimes At Midnight” reveals this late work of Welles as not a near-masterpiece, but a genuine one. It’s funny, heartbreaking, awe-inspiring, bracing. Welles was not deceiving himself when he spoke of it as the film that he hoped would gain him admission to Heaven. Advertisement.
