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1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert
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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
Adapted from plays by William Shakespeare
Originally released as a motion picture in 1965
Wide screen (1.66:1)
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
Photography, Edmond Richard ; music, Alberto Lavagnino ; editor, Fritz Mueller
Orson Welles, Jeanne Moreau, Margaret Rutherford, Sir John Gielgud, Marina Vlady, Walter Chiary, Fernando Rey ; narration based on Holinshed's Chronicles spoken by Ralph Richardson
Blu-ray, region A, widescreen (1.66:1) presentation; requires Blu-ray player
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing