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Actors: Peter O'Toole, Sophia Loren, James Coco, Harry Andrews, John Castle II Director: Arthur Hiller Rating: Features: AC-3, Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC Number of Discs: 1 Running Time: 129 minutes Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Release Date: May 11, 2004 Theatrical Release Date: 1973-02 Studio: MGM Video & DVD
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Academy Award® winners* Peter O Toole and Sophia Loren are magnificent in this lavishly produced LA Herald-Examiner and beautifully acted The New York Times epic masterpiece. Featuring an Oscar®-nominated** score with the classic The Impossible Dream this original and daring Films & Filming musical is an experience not to be missed!Jailed during the Spanish Inquisition for offending the church author Miguel de Cervantes O Toole is forced to act out one of his manuscripts for the entertainment of fellow inmates. Cervantes delivers a rapturous performance as the legendary Don Quixote the chivalrous knight whose choice to see life as it should be not as it is takes him into battles with an imaginary foe and into romance with the beautiful Dulcinea Loren.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: PG UPC: 027616903983 Manufacturer No: 1006196
It's hard to imagine a finer Don Quixote than Peter O'Toole, who's spent most of his career with a slightly mad, dreaming look in his marvelous eyes. O'Toole's suitability for the role is tested by the Broadway treatment of Man of La Mancha, the film version of the hit stage musical. Everybody knows "The Impossible Dream," that indomitable hymn to, well, quixotic questing, and it is indeed the best of the Spanish-inflected songs. Despite the location shooting in Italy, Love Story director Arthur Hiller can't elude the stagey concept in which Cervantes, imprisoned by the Inquisition, acts out the tale of Don Quixote for his fellow prisoners. James Coco, as Sancho Panza, is overshadowed by the film's irresistible Dulcinea: Sophia Loren, at her mature peak. Her singing, alas, is not as ripe as her beautiful self. If you love Cervantes for his earthy ironies, this movie will seem a curious slice of inspirational shtick. --Robert Horton
