Chimes at Midnight
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| Chimes at Midnight | |
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| Directed by | Orson Welles |
| Produced by | Ángel Escolano Emiliano Piedra Harry Saltzman |
| Written by | Orson Welles William Shakespeare |
| Starring | Jeanne Moreau Orson Welles Margaret Rutherford Keith Baxter John Gielgud Marina Vlady Fernando Rey Beatrice Welles Ingrid Pitt |
| Release date(s) | December 22, 1965 (Spain) |
| Running time | 117 min. |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
Chimes at Midnight (aka Falstaff) is a 1965 film directed by Orson Welles based around the character of Sir John Falstaff in Shakespeare. Orson Welles himself played Falstaff, Keith Baxter was Hal and John Gielgud as Henry IV. Jeanne Moreau appeared as Doll Tearsheet and Margaret Rutherford as Mistress Quickly.
The film was nominated (in 1968) for a BAFTA film award for Welles as Best Foreign Actor. At the Cannes Film Festival Welles was nominated (in 1966) for the Golden Palm Award and won the 20th Anniversary Prize and the Technical Grand Prize. In Spain it won (in 1966) the Citizens Writers Circle Award for Best Film.
Welles held this film in high regard and considered it along with The Trial his best work.
[edit] Books
Chimes at Midnight: ISBN 0-8135-1339-1 : Rutgers University Press (January 1989) ISBN 0-8135-1339-1 (complete screenplay included)
[edit] External links
- Chimes at Midnight at the Internet Movie Database
- Review by Roger Ebert - part of Ebert's "Great Movies" series.
- Review at Senses of Cinema
- Review at Cinescene
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Citizen Kane (1941) • The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) • The Stranger (1946) • The Lady from Shanghai (1947) • Macbeth (1948) • Othello (1952) • Mr. Arkadin (1955) • Touch of Evil (1958) • The Trial (1962) • Chimes at Midnight (1965) • The Immortal Story (1968) • F for Fake (1974)
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