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-'''''Chimes at Midnight''''', also known as '''''Falstaff''''' and '''''Campanadas a medianoche''''' ([[Spanish language|Spanish]] title), is a [[1965 in film|1965 film]] directed by and starring [[Orson Welles]]. Focused on [[William Shakespeare]]'s recurring character [[Falstaff|Sir John Falstaff]], the film stars Welles himself as Falstaff, [[Keith Baxter (actor)|Keith Baxter]] plays Prince Hal (who will later become [[Henry V of England|Henry V]]), and [[John Gielgud]] plays [[Henry IV of England|Henry IV]]. [[Jeanne Moreau]] appears as [[Doll Tearsheet]] and [[Margaret Rutherford]] as Mistress Quickly. 
-The script contains text from five Shakespeare plays: primarily ''[[Henry IV, Part 1]]'' and ''[[Henry IV, Part 2]]'', but also ''[[Richard II (play)|Richard II]]'', ''[[Henry V (play)|Henry V]]'', and ''[[The Merry Wives of Windsor]]''. It was based on Welles's play ''Five Kings'', an adaptation of four Shakespeare plays which he produced in 1939 and again in 1960. The film's narration, spoken by [[Ralph Richardson]], is taken from the chronicler [[Raphael Holinshed]].+'''''King Richard the Second''''' is a [[Shakespearean history|history play]] by [[William Shakespeare]] believed to be written in approximately 1595. It is based on the life of King [[Richard II of England]] (ruled 1377–1399) and is the first part of a [[tetralogy]], referred to by some scholars as the [[Henriad]], followed by three plays concerning Richard's successors: ''[[Henry IV, part 1]]'', ''[[Henry IV, part 2]]'', and ''[[Henry V (play)|Henry V]]''. It may not have been written as a stand-alone work.
-Near the end of the film, Welles slightly alters a scene from ''Henry V'', Act 2, Scene 2 in which Henry V pardons an imprisoned street rabble-rouser just before his expedition to invade [[France]]. In Welles' version it is stated that this man is Falstaff, and the incident he is pardoning is Falstaff's disturbance of Henry's coronation. Although both the pardoned prisoner and Falstaff are said to drink wine, Shakespeare's original has no implication the pardoned prisoner is Falstaff. In both Welles' film and in ''Henry V'', this scene is followed by the death of Falstaff.+Although the [[First Folio]] (1623) edition of Shakespeare's works lists the play as a history play, the earlier [[Early texts of Shakespeare's works|Quarto]] edition of 1597 calls itself ''The tragedie of King Richard the second''.
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-The film was nominated (in 1968) for a [[BAFTA]] film award for Welles as Best Foreign Actor. At the [[1966 Cannes Film Festival]] Welles was nominated 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.+
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-Welles held this film in high regard and considered it along with ''[[The Trial (1962 film)|The Trial]]'' (1962) as his best work. As he remarked in 1982, "If I wanted to get into heaven on the basis of one movie, that's the one I'd offer up." Many critics, including [[Peter Bogdanovich]] and [[Jonathan Rosenbaum]], also consider it Welles's finest work. The scene depicting the [[Battle of Shrewsbury]] has been particularly admired, serving as an inspiration for movies like ''[[Braveheart]]'' and ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]''. +
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-The film is officially available on region 2 DVD from Spain. Due to complications concerning the film's ownership and the estate of Orson Welles, ''Chimes at Midnight'' remains unavailable in the United States. It was released for the first time in the UK in February 2011.+
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-==Cast==+
-*Orson Welles ... [[Falstaff]]+
-*Jeanne Moreau ... [[Doll Tearsheet]]+
-*Margaret Rutherford ... Mistress Quickly+
-*John Gielgud ... [[Henry IV of England|Henry IV]]+
-*[[Marina Vlady]] ... Kate Percy+
-*[[Walter Chiari]] ... Mr. Silence+
-*Michael Aldridge ... Pistol+
-*Julio Peña +
-*Tony Beckley ... Ned Poins+
-*Andrés Mejuto +
-*[[Keith Pyott]] +
-*Jeremy Rowe ... [[John_of_England#Depictions_in_fiction|Prince John]]+
-*[[Alan Webb (actor)|Alan Webb]] ... Shallow+
-*[[Fernando Rey]] ... Worcester+
-*[[Keith Baxter (actor)|Keith Baxter]] ... [[Henry V, King of England|Prince Hal]]+
-*[[Norman Rodway]] ... Henry 'Hotspur' Percy+
-*[[Jose Nieto]] ... Northumberland+
-*[[Andrew Faulds]] ... Westmoreland+
-*[[Charles Farrell (Irish actor)|Charles Farrell]]+
-*[[Fernando Hilbeck]]+
-*[[Patrick Bedford]] ... Bardolph+
-*[[Beatrice Welles]] ... Falstaff's Page+
-*[[Ralph Richardson]] ... Narrator (voice)+
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-==Books==+
-''Chimes at Midnight''. Rutgers UP, 1989. ISBN 0-8135-1339-1 (complete screenplay included).+
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King Richard the Second is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to be written in approximately 1595. It is based on the life of King Richard II of England (ruled 1377–1399) and is the first part of a tetralogy, referred to by some scholars as the Henriad, followed by three plays concerning Richard's successors: Henry IV, part 1, Henry IV, part 2, and Henry V. It may not have been written as a stand-alone work.

Although the First Folio (1623) edition of Shakespeare's works lists the play as a history play, the earlier Quarto edition of 1597 calls itself The tragedie of King Richard the second.


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