Chimes at Midnight (1966)

In honor of William Shakespeare's Birthday and the on-going Shakespeare Blog-a-Thon, here is the moving conclusion of Orson Welles's Chimes at Midnight (aka Falstaff), based on Shakespeare's Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, and a bit of Henry V. Once more, as in so many Welles-directed films, a male friendship is betrayed. Once more, director-star Welles imagines his own demise.

Here’s a film I’d love to see given a proper restoration and re-release, by which I mean clean up the image, clean up the sound, but NO RE-EDITING, thank you very much.