Chimes at Midnight
The culmination of Orson Welles’s lifelong obsession with Shakespeare’s robustly funny and ultimately tragic antihero, Sir John Falstaff; the often soused friend of King Henry IV’s wayward son Prince Hal. Integrating elements from both Henry IV plays as well as Richard II, Henry V, and The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Director: Orson Welles
Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Jeremy Rowe, John Gielgud, Keith Baxter, Margaret Rutherford, Marina Vlady, Michael Aldridge, Orson Welles, Tony Beckley, Walter Chiari