The Orson Welles 1966 movie Chimes at Midnight is worth seeing just for Welles’ performance as Falstaff. (Gob to the smacked.) Jeanne Moreau as Doll Tearsheet and Margaret Rutherford as Mistress Quickly are perfect and John Gielgud as the old king likewise. There’s a Janus films version which is the one you want until the Criterion collection comes out later. The only quibble I have is that the audio, like a lot of international coproductions of the past is, at best, variable, so you’ll be turning the volume up and down all through. Also not registered very well. The actors spoke their lines and it was all dubbed in later. Welles in late medieval armour is pretty impressive, when it isn’t actively hilarious.
I’m going to try writing in a different location today.
