Chimes at Midnight
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 55 minutes
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: July 10, 2015
- Originally Released: 1965
- Label: Reel Vault
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Orson Welles, Keith Baxter, Jeanne Moreau & John Gielgud | |
Performer: | Norman Rodway, Margaret Rutherford, Fernando Rey, Marina Vlady, Alan Webb, Walter Chiari, Michael Aldridge, Tony Beckley, Andrew Faulds, Patrick Bedford & José Nieto | |
Directed by | Orson Welles | |
Narrated by | Ralph Richardson | |
Screenwriting by | Orson Welles | |
Original story by | William Shakespeare | |
Composition by | Angelo Francesco Lavagnino | |
Director of Photography: | Edmond Richard |
Entertainment Reviews:
The best and most touchingly personal of all Shakespeare adaptations, CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT is pervaded by melancholy and loneliness, even though its characters are almost seen never alone. -- Grade: A
A.V. Club
In this film, [Orson] Welles is bigger than life, literally and figuratively.
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Movies and Shakers
The film is wonderful and exasperating, the work of a genius, the reflections of an egotist, delicious utterances of great language and muddied speeches in other instances.
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Cleveland Press
Rating: A --
Thanks to an astonishingly crisp restoration, Orson Welles' 1965 Shakespearean masterpiece can now be appreciated by anyone who thought his best days behind the camera ended with Touch of Evil.
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Entertainment Weekly
The story, conceived in these terms, is "too easy." Fortunately, the film has several other stories to tell, mainly through its images.
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The New York Review of Books
Quite likely the greatest Shakespearean film ever.
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Christian Science Monitor
5 stars out of 5 -- [T]his movie finds Welles at his most serene and deeply personal. The greatest special effect is the human face, his own most of all.
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Product Description:
The legendary Shakespearean character Sir John Falstaff, the notoriously drunken, obese, and yet charming companion of the young Henry V, steps up from supporting character in several plays to the central focus of Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight, conside
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- UPC: 644827574223
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