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1966 |
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DRAMA
COSTUME
CONTROVERSIAL
WAR
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Spain/ Switzerland |
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| Length: |
119 |
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King Henry V discards his old buddy Falstaff (Orson Welles).
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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| The fate of this movie, drawn from Shakesspeare's history plays and now generally regarded as a near-masterpiece, is depressing testimony to the undue influence at one time of Bosley Crowther, the New York Times film critic. After he wrote a scathing review of it at the Cannes Film Festival, the film never received much distribution in the US; and it remeains the least seen of Welles's better films. The badly-dubbed opening scenes are, admittedly, a defect; but the film is visually imaginative and well enough acted to justify most of the superlatives which critics now seem happy to heap on it. |
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, Keith Baxter 
, John Gielgud 