Film Details

Long out of release, this Shakespearean comedy/drama that Orson Welles regarded as his greatest film (some critics concur) can now been seen again! Welles compiled text from five different Shakespeare plays to chronicle the almost-father-and-son friendship between rotund, dissipated, disreputable Sir John Falstaff (Orson Welles) and young Prince Hal (Keith Baxter), the man who would be King Henry V. According to Pauline Kael, Welles' direction of the grim battle of Shrewsbury “ranks with the finest of Griffith, John Ford, Eisenstein, Kurosawa.” With John Gielgud, Jeanne Moreau, Margaret Rutherford, et al.