Man of La Mancha (1972) - I, Don Quixote

[SanabiturAnimaMea]

That beard!

[heavensmiles777]

I love this song! We just finished watching the movie today in lit. :) It took us, like, the whole week to watch it!

[cacasheetpipi]

Yeah! Fuck yeah! This is too brutal! I shed many manly tears to this! This deserves a slow clap, it just won the internets.

[bodicieye]

很棒。

[KingOystar]

I love this story!

[Zhucci]

Who plays Dulcinea in this film?

[kingcaesar5]

@Zhucci sophia loren, doesn't get better than that.

[nandersen918]

where did you get this movie? did you download from somewhere? i cant find it on dvd.

[NightlyShadow]

@nandersen918 Look on Netflix :D



[mesadead10]

@nandersen918 its a filmed play

[TheSecondManofJazz]

@mesadead10 *Musical, but it would have been filmed on a stage if it was that way- Not a setting like this.

[Dave7oddjob]

Thats it im using this for my audition this year

[fuzzydragon]

I could vote for him.

[ScarletCharmz]

awesome job!!! you have an amazing voice!!

[MissAthenaGirl]

From grades 2-8, my Spanish teacher would do a lesson about Don Quixote, so I've known the story most of my life. Later, at 15, I suprised my mother by knowing the story, even though I told it to her when I was in 2nd grade. She had read the story and was suprised that I would know it at a young age. This past summer, at 16, I was in Spain with a church group. While driving through the countryside, I took pics of the 'dragons' (windmills) to show at home. I love this story! :)

[Wellch]

It is nearly pitch dark in my youtube screen. But I can hear it just fine.

[ps3pspcavs2]

BEST SONG OF ALL TIME

[sunrazor33]

It was a good movie! The musical with Richard Kiley was also good!

[scagish]

5 people have no honor and glory in their miserable lifes.

[blackoutrus]

i am i don quixote the lord of la mancha this is all i want to be you can keep everything

else do what youlike just leave me alone and go away iknow where you live and i have acsess to automatic weapons its a bad idea to fuck with me just stop it now stop it

just stopitright now!

[elPezcadito20]

is this part actually in the book or is just in the movie??

[ckramer24]

@elPezcadito20 I believe that Cervantes (the playwright who is singing during this scene) was made up for Man of La Mancha and is not actually in the book Don Quixote. Sadly, I have not actually read the book, so I do not know for sure, but that is what I have read in other places.

[kyrior]

@ckramer24 also, cervantes is the author of the book the play is from and this movie is based upon.

[doug47130]

It has always bothered me that his armor was put on backwards. Call me Monk

[RobertLowellPoetry]

I never understood why this film was considered a failure. I always thought that it was very enjoyable. The 3 leads were cast perfectly. Peter O'Toole is magnificent.

[dumboldon]

A god performing on earth.

[bellbellmorgie123]

this is the best play ever!! Don Quixote!!! =)

[countdumas]

@bellbellmorgie123 A cover is always necessary. In concealment lies a great part of our strength. Hence we must always hide ourselves under the name of another society. --Die neusten ararbeiten des Spartacus and Philo in dem Illuminaten-Orden, 1794, p: 165

This is taken from page 491 of Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. 'Coincidentally' Umberto Eco has written the introduction to the newly printed version of Alexandre's The Count of Monte Christo.

[bellbellmorgie123]

This is the best play ever!!!! =) Don quixote!!!

[aldgatewest]

As a musical, this film should've had much better technical sound quality.  Unfortunately, the cheap sound quality really cheapened the whole film.

[blackoutrus]

@aldgatewest boo get a life knobhead

[mrsfthomas]

@aldgatewest and tell me again what is the year they did this movie.....hmmm maybe that will help you understand why the sound is like that....cheapened the whole film......hmmm sorry that 1972 was not advanced enough for you to enjoy.

[RobertLowellPoetry]

@mrsfthomas

I think that the person complaining about the sound may have just been relying on the youtube version. The sound on youtube is often very poor. I have this DVD and the sound is just fine and I;m sure it was fine in the theaters in 1972. You know, 1972 was not that long along. Sound techniques were fine back then especially in big budget productions.

[blackoutrus]

@aldgatewest obviously you could have done better? prove it!

[yrti0121]

this film is soo wierd but ttheres something about it thats sooo cuute and adorable...something reeally special about it :D

[mlucey07]

@LordBuckyMayhem I got this on dvd lately from amazon!

[Karlzjayxday17]

We are watching this in school and I feel in love with with him <3 lol

[fordhamize]

I live in Chester County, Pa. Our public library has this DVD. I must have watched it at least 50 times. It's magnificent movie!

[MrElliotpaige]

You've not heard I Don Quixote until you've heard it in the original Scot Bakula.

[al1936ful]

@MrElliotpaige Scott Bakula was not the original Don Quixote. Richard Kiley was. The show opened on Broadway in 1965. Scott Bakula performed it only on "Quantum Leap".

[blackoutrus]

@al1936ful he still did a pretyy good job. but besides all that this is still pritty awsome. sorry about the spelling.

[angelevergray]

We watched this for Spanish class, and I think it's pretty amazing. :]

[RandomPersonman]

now imagine this with richard kiley who they originally wanted :)

[rc276]

We are singing this song for choir

[chinkyirish]

one of the best

[lindemann1963]

it'great.forever.for me.

[SlurpeeQueen21]

I Don QuixoteTHE LORD OF " La Mancha" PRICELESS"

[KamokuChan]

I had to memorize all these songs for Spanish class. I love this musical! =)

[SG1Mitchell]

Listen to Scott Bakula perform this song from an episode of Quantum Leap

[RosesNightengales]

Man this makes me want to listen to the Broadway Cast again o_o I love this movie and this show will actually change your life. Trust me. I've seen it. Its brilliant.

[hannaaaaaaaaahfish]

This is one of my favorite movies!!! Ah it is just the best!

[Classicsatdusk]

It's a brilliant film in it's way. Gorgeous version of this story. So unfairly criticized by jaded elitist critics who think they know what's good for everyone.

[al1936ful]

@Classicsatdusk They criticized it for not being faithful to the novel, while the Broadway critics praised the show for capturing the spirit, and not the letter, of the novel.

[Classicsatdusk]

Underrated film. It's going to be hard to top this version of this story and it's performances.

[hpgwdthefan]

I watched this movie in Spanish class

[MsBrirish]

Wonderful - those horses rock! One of my favorite films with the BEST music AND the great P O'Toole

[kcufmalsi]

Richard Kiley was the best!!!!

[KingOystar]

Im sorry but I like Sancho sooooo much more then Quixote!

[Hiraghm]

Don Quixote, my spiritual Godfather. I just wish I could be half the man Miguel Cervantes really was.

[obniswan]

Boy, they sure like to splay out their arms, don't they?

[darknessholly648454]

The guy looks like the BK King!!! lol!!!

[darknessholly648454]

The guy looks like the BK King!!! lol!!!

[kvtsworld]

I personally like the plays/musicals better than the movie. Because you are suppose to imagine/dream. I mean the movie is good, but it creates it for you. In my opinion , i like doing it myself. Because it is more fun.

[dragon500rider]

my school just finished doing this musical =P

[balubulaba]

peter o`tool is amazing, old school actor :-)

did he sing himself as well?

[rosselanor]

Those horses are just amazing :D.

[balubulaba]

i did mean the lyrics i meant its THAT beautiful that it cant be described :D

[balubulaba]

amazing,....cant find the words :D

[ophooey]

its under the info

[Jagdtoq]

James Coco makes a great Sancho lol

[FuzzyMuffins2]

please tell me that was sarcasm...

[mitch26]

I really wish it was, but after seeing the original road show looking at this is pathetic. The performances are stilted, the musical score is weak, check out Richard Kiley's Impossible Dream. This is like watching a bad high school play. Reviews at the time this movie was released were all in agreement this version was awful.

[FuzzyMuffins2]

You're missing the point.

At this scene, they are still in their "prison" characters, so to speak. They are putting on play within the play, so of course they are going to sound "stilted". In the original script it even says, (when Cervantes first sings as Don Quixote), that it should be sung self-consciously, an actor aware he is acting.

I love this movie!

[mitch26]

I don't feel that I'm missing the point, I've seen 3 or 4 versions and always believed that this version lacked passion. Joan Diener was brilliant as Aldonza and displayed a passion I thought was lacking in Loren. O'Toole is a decent actor but I feel that he was poorly directed here. I can appreciate your appreciation for this movie but if you had seen the original play or roadshow I think you'd see where I was coming from. Talent was good but I don't like how it was directed.

[fjccommish]

@FuzzyMuffins2 I don't hear a difference between when they sing as their characters in their little play, and when they're actually Don Q and Sancho.

[easy60sfan]

@FuzzyMuffins2 I, like many others, didn't understand it when I was 17 years old and watching this in the theater in 1972. But I loved the music and bought the record. Now, in 2011 I'm 55, and loving it all over again! 

[Aveiraslover]

@FuzzyMuffins2 Who's missing the point?

[gandj19]

@FuzzyMuffins2 A play with in a play you say. We need to go deeper.

[VeriGiroux]

@gandj19 A Dr. acting out the fantasy of a man in a play within a play....I feel the need to go deeper still

[FourtyNinerFan89]

Those are fighting words.

Peter O'toole is outstanding, this is just bad video and sound quality.

Also, anybody who turned the book into a play should be taken out and shot because nothing visual will ever do this amazing work moral justice.

[mitch26]

For some reason youtube won't even let me post their own urls but to see someone great in this role check out Richard Kiley's version. Peter O' Toole isn't a half bad actor, but all the major talent here is just phoning it in. O Toole's motions are short and jerky where they need to be more grand and sweeping. He looks like someone gave him a wedgie:)

[veladarney]

Yea, but I prefer his version of the song - no offense but Richard Kiley always sounds like he's half asleep, at least in the versions I know. Now, this Don Quixote here is out to kick ass! ;)

[bmyra]

Peter O'Toole is always outstanding. Always.

[Jsingle911]

@FourtyNinerFan89:

It's not an attempt to tell the story of Don Quixote on stage, it's a musical that pays homage to it. I can't imagine anyone would confuse this for what Cervantes wrote. Just like with all musicals, someone has a point to get across, and borrows elements and settings from literature (See Wicked, Into the Woods, Phantom) to tell their story.

[KingOystar]

Sancho is my favorite

[misfitmike138]

Thanx

[bazil494]

super.