Man of La Mancha (1972)
Man of La Mancha (1972)
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Peter O'Toole
Don Quixote De La Mancha
Sophia Loren
Dulcinea
James Coco
Sancho Panza
Harry Andrews
The Innkeeper
Miguel de Cervantes
Writer
John Castle
Sanson Carrasco
Marne Maitland
Captain of the Guard
Brian Blessed
Pedro
Dorothy Sinclair
The Innkeeper's Wife
Ian Richardson
The Padre
Miriam Acevedo
Fermina
Dominic Barto
Muleteer
Julie Gregg
Antonia
Rosalie Crutchley
The Housekeeper
Poldo Bendandi
Muleteer
Peppi Borza
Muleteer
Gino Conforti
The Barber
Arthur Hiller
Director
Mario Donen
Muleteer
Paolo Gozlino
Muleteer
Dale Wasserman
Writer
Teddy Green
Muleteer
Giuseppe Rotunno
Cinematographer
Gustavo De Nardo
Muleteer
Media.
Details.
Release DateDecember 12, 1972
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 12m
Content RatingPG
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Man of La Mancha is a 1972 film adaptation of the Broadway musical Man of La Mancha by Dale Wasserman, with music by Mitch Leigh and lyrics by Joe Darion. The musical was suggested by the classic novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, but more directly based on Wasserman's 1959 non-musical television play I, Don Quixote, which combines a semi-fictional episode from the life of Cervantes with scenes from his novel.
Though financed by Italian producer Alberto Grimaldi and shot in Rome, the film is in English, with all principal actors either British or American, excepting Sophia Loren. (Gino Conforti, the Barber, is an American of Italian descent.) The film was released by United Artists and is known in Italy as L'Uomo della Mancha.
Produced and directed by Arthur Hiller, the film stars Peter O'Toole as both Miguel de Cervantes and Don Quixote, James Coco as both Cervantes' manservant and Don Quixote's "squire" Sancho Panza, and Sophia Loren as scullery maid and prostitute Aldonza, whom the delusional Don Quixote idolizes as Dulcinea. Gillian Lynne staged the film's choreography and fight scenes.