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Chimes at midnight [videorecording (DVD)] / director, Orson Welles.

Two-DVD special edition

[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]

2 videodiscs (DVD) (116 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet.

digital optical monaural

NTSC

video file DVD video region 1

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Margaret Rutherford, Sir John Gielgud, Marina Vlady, Fernando Rey.

DVD, region 1, NTSC, 1.66:1 aspect ration ; monaural.

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.

Two-DVD special edition features: New high-definition digital restoration, Audio commenatry featuring film scholar James Naremore, author of The Magic World of Orson Welles, New interview with actor Keith Baxer, New interview with director Orson Welles's daughter Beatrice Welles, who appeared in the film at age nine, New interview with actor and Welles biographer Simon Callow, New interview with film historian Joseph McBride, author of What ever happened to Orson Welles?, Interview with Welles while at work editing the film, from a 1965 episode of The Merv Griffin Show, Trailer, PLUS: An essay by film scholar Michael Anderegg.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1966.

Title from container.

Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Margaret Rutherford, Sir John Gielgud, Marina Vlady, Fernando Rey.

DVD, region 1, NTSC, 1.66:1 aspect ration ; monaural.

Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Criterion Collection

Falstaff, John, Sir (Fictitious character) -- Drama.

Feature films.

Great Britain -- History -- Henry IV, 1399-1413 -- Drama.

Great Britain -- History -- Henry V, 1413-1422 -- Drama.

DVDs.

9781681431918

1681431912

715515184410

CC2664DDVD

1574171