Man of La Mancha (1972)

7.1	Listal rating
6.2	IMDB rating

Directed by

Arthur Hiller

Starring (View all)

Peter O'Toole

Don Quixote de La Mancha / Miguel de Cervantes / Alonso Quijana

Sophia Loren

Dulcinea / Aldonza

James Coco

Sancho Panza / Cervantes' s Manservant

Harry Andrews

The Innkeeper / The Governor

John Castle

Sanson Carrasco / The Duke

Brian Blessed

Pedro

Ian Richardson

The Padre

Julie Gregg

Antonia Quijana

Written by

Dale Wasserman

(musical play)

Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra

novel Don Quixote

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Man of La Mancha

2 years, 8 months ago at Sep 12 19:33

JxSxPx

I firmly believe that Arthur Hiller could be a good director when he rustled up the courage and ingenuity to do so. The Americanization of Emily features a dark and complicated performance from Julie Andrews and is an impressive film. But he also threw out Love Story, a sappy Lifetime movie-of-the-week before such a thing existed. That is just to name two of his films. So where does that leave Man... read more

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Release date : 25 December 1972
UPC: 027616903983

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Man of La Mancha

“I firmly believe that Arthur Hiller could be a good director when he rustled up the courage and ingenuity to do so. The Americanization of Emily features a dark and complicated performance from Julie Andrews and is an impressive film. But he also threw out Love Story, a sappy Lifetime movie-of-the-week before such a thing existed. That is just to name two of his films. So where does that leave Man of La Mancha? Well, it’s a bad film with a few good moments.

Insufferably long and armed with uninspired and groan-worthy songbook to go along with it, Man of La Mancha is confusing and cheap-looking. Told in flashbacks and fantasy sequences, which you eventually learn but improbably difficult to figure out for the first oh half hour, it takes place mostly in a dungeon. A dungeon whi” read more