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The film was financed by an Italian production company, Produzioni Europee Associates, and shot in
Rome. However, it is entirely in
English, and all of its principal actors except for
Sophia Loren are either British or American. (
Gino Conforti, who plays the Barber, is an American of Italian descent.) The film was released by
United Artists. It is known in
Italy as
L'Uomo della Mancha.
The film was produced and directed by
Arthur Hiller, and 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, who later choreographed
Cats, staged the choreography for the film (including the fight scenes).
Gino Conforti, as the barber, is the only member of the original Broadway musical cast to repeat his role for the film, though James Coco also played that role, briefly, on Broadway.
The fact that the film had gone through several directors and screenwriters, and that
Peter O'Toole and
Sophia Loren, who were not singers, had replaced Richard Kiley and Joan Diener in the leading roles, may have influenced the critics' reactions to the film at the time, although it has been proven by the success of films like
The Wizard of Oz and
Laura that a change in actors and directors need not affect the response to a film. Upon release, and for several years afterward, the film of
Man of La Mancha received overwhelmingly negative reviews, notably from
Time Magazine, which not only did not consider the film worthy of a full-length review, but even threw in some criticism of the original stage production into the bargain. They referred to the film as being "epically vulgar", and called the song
The Impossible Dream "surely the most mercilessly lachrymose hymn to empty-headed optimism since
Carousel's "You'll Never Walk Alone."
[3] Newsweek, in its review, opined that "the whole production is basted in the cheapest sentiment. Everyone gets a chance to cry over poor Don Quixote".
Leonard Maltin still gives the film a BOMB rating in his annual Movie and Video Guide, stating "Beautiful source material has been raped, murdered and buried".
Roger Ebert, who gave the film two stars, stated: "Now it's almost obligatory to cast a musical with people who can't sing or dance - and make no pretensions to. At least when we were getting
Natalie Wood, we were getting
Marnie [sic] Nixon's voice. If there's anything worse than dubbing in the voice of a non-singer, its not dubbing the voice of a non-singer." Mistakenly assuming that Peter O'Toole sang his own songs in the film, Ebert went on: "What favor were they doing us when they let us hear Peter O'Toole sing? Richard Harris is better, and he's no good. He can't sing, that is, but at least he can read lyrics. O'Toole masticates them."
On the other hand,
Vincent Canby of
The New York Times stated that the film was "beautifully acted", and both Peter O'Toole and James Coco received Golden Globe nominations for their performances. The film, according to Dale Wasserman in his autobiography
The Impossible Musical, fared well financially in its first week, but ultimately did poorly at the box office. Over the last few years, however, the film's reputation has somewhat improved, as evidenced by favorable online reviews from writers such as
Phil Hall, and viewers as well as critics are more responsive to it.
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