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Chimes at Midnight

Original title: Campanadas a medianoche

“A Distinguished Company Breathes Life Into Shakespeare’s Lusty Age of FALSTAFF”

1965 · 1 h 55 min
Directed by Orson Welles
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Cast

Orson Welles Keith Baxter John Gielgud Jeanne Moreau

Credits

Written by: William Shakespeare

Plot

Falstaff's friendship with Prince Hal, drawn from several Shakespeare plays.

Sinekatalog’s take

Orson Welles's Shakespearean pastiche centres on Falstaff and Prince Hal, with Welles himself as the fat knight. Its Battle of Shrewsbury sequence is brilliant, and the film is a rich, melancholy masterpiece.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.6 / 10 (11,367 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.

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