Falstaff : (Chimes at midnight)
(Blu-ray) 

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Published
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2016].
Format
Blu-ray
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
ISBN
9781681431901, 1681431904
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Published
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2016].
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert.
Language
English
ISBN
9781681431901, 1681431904
UPC
715515184311

Notes

General Note
Adapted from four plays by William Shakespeare: Henry IV, Henry V, Richard II, and The Merry Wives of Windsor ; with narration based on Holinshed's Chronicles.
General Note
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.
General Note
Wide screen (1.66:1).
General Note
Special features: audio commentary featuring film scholar James Naremore; new interview with actor Keith Baxter; new interview with director Orson Welle's daughter Beatrice Welles; new interview with actor and Welles biographer Simon Callow; new interview with film historian Joseph McBride; interview with Welles while at work editing the film, from a 1965 episode of The Merv Griffin show; trailer; essay by film scholar Michael Anderegg.
Creation/Production Credits
Photography, Edmond Richard ; music, Alberto [that is, Angelo] Lavagnino ; editor, Fritz Mueller.
Participants/Performers
Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Margaret Rutherford, Sir John Gielgud, Marina Vlady, Walter Chiari, Fernando Rey ; narrator, Ralph Richardson.
Description
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.
System Details
Blu-ray, region A, widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; DTS-HD Master Audio mono; requires Blu-ray player.
Language
In English, with optional subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).

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