John Gielgud as King Henry IV; Orson Welles as Sir John Falstaff; Jeanne Moreau as Doll Tearsheet; Fernando Rey as Worcester; Tony Beckley as Ned Poins; Andrew Faulds as Westmoreland; Margaret Rutherford as Mistress Quickly; Michael Aldridge as Pistol; Alan Webb as Shallow; Norman Rodway as Henry 'Hotspur' Percy; Julio Pe�a as Undetermined Role; Keith Pyott as Undetermined Role; Jose Nieto as Northumberland; Walter Chiari as Mr. Silence; Keith Baxter as Prince Hal
Rating
NR (Not Rated)
Cinematography
Edmond Richard
Language
English
Plot
The career of Shakespeare's Sir John Falstaff as roistering companion to young Prince Hal, circa 1400-1413. The crowning achievement of Orson Welles's extraordinary film career, Chimes at Midnight 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.
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