Sir John Falstaff (Orson Welles) is the hero in this compilation of extracts from Shakespeare's "Henry IV" and other plays, made into a connected story of Falstaff's career as young Prince Hal's (Keith Baxter's) drinking companion. The massive Knight roisters with and without the Prince, philosophizes comically, goes to war (in his own fashion), and meets his final disappointment, set in a real-looking late medieval England.... (Full plot summary below)
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Sir John Falstaff (Orson Welles) is the hero in this compilation of extracts from Shakespeare's "Henry IV" and other plays, made into a connected story of Falstaff's career as young Prince Hal's (Keith Baxter's) drinking companion. The massive Knight roisters with and without the Prince, philosophizes comically, goes to war (in his own fashion), and meets his final disappointment, set in a real-looking late medieval England.
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| The New RepublicPauline KaelIt takes large latent talent to tell the audience that you know that what you're doing isn't worth doing and still do it better than anyone else in the movie. |
| City Pages, Minneapolis/St. PaulMichael NordineA best-of approach that cuts to the soul of a figure whom Welles considered Shakespeare's greatest creation. |
| ReelTalk Movie ReviewsDonald J. LevitLike its central figure, and like the director and his oeuvre, the film has its flaws but they are to be overlooked in consideration of the whole package and the heart: were it otherwise, none should 'scape whipping. |
| NPRBob MondelloSprawling, and hugely ambitious, and containing a glorious Wellesian Falstaff who's as majestic in folly as he is in girth. |
| Independent (UK)Geoffrey MacnabHal's eventual betrayal of Falstaff ("I know thee not old man") is the most poignant moment in all of Welles' movies. |
| GuardianPeter BradshawPlaying Falstaff might have been Welles's creative and physical destiny: in the character he found a dignity and sensuality in his, by then, overweight form. The confidence and panache of his staging is a treat. |
| Time OutTom HuddlestonWelles's most human film, his most poignant, funny and empathetic. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrThe one Welles film that deserves to be called lovely. |
| VarietyVariety StaffA personal viewpoint, it mixes the grotesque, bawdy, comic and heroic, and does have a melancholy under its carousing and battles. |
| Film ThreatPhil HallDespite its many faults, it deserves to be seen. |
