Don Quixote
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Edward Dillon
De Wolf Hopper [sr.]
Fay Tincher
Max Davidson
Rhea Mitchell
Chester Withey
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
His mind unbalanced by too little nourishment and too much reading, Don Quixote, believing himself to be a chivalrous knight, sallies forth with Sancho Panza, his squire, to perform noble deeds. During a battle with devilish windmills, Don Quixote is knocked unconscious, but is cared for by Dorothea, a beautiful shepherdess who was forced from her home after Don Fernando seduced and abandoned her. Quixote takes off to find Fernando and ends up at an inn where he meets and falls in love with Dulcinea, a common girl whose plainness eludes the befuddled knight. Expelled from the inn, Quixote encounters a group of convicts and, convinced that they are slaves, fights to free them from their guards. Later, Cardenio, one of the convicts, tells Quixote that he was arrested for loving Lucinda against her father's will, and when the knight discovers that Lucinda is about to marry the rakish Don Fernando, he risks his life to stop the wedding and restore her safely to Cardenio. In the ensuing battle, Quixote is shot and dies in the arms of Dulcinea and Sancho Panza.
Director
Edward Dillon
Cast
De Wolf Hopper [sr.]
Fay Tincher
Max Davidson
Rhea Mitchell
Chester Withey
Julia Faye
George Walsh
Edward Dillon
Carl Stockdale
William Brown
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Notes
According to reviews, this film was shortened by one thousand feet after its opening at the Knickerbocker Theater in New York. Other films based on the same source include a 1908 French version made by Georges Méliès; a 1923 British version directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Jerrold Robertshaw; a 1933 British version directed by G. W. Pabst and starring Feodor Chaliapin; a 1947 Spanish version directed by Rafael Gil and starring Rafael Rivelles; a 1957 Russian version directed by Grigori Kozintsev; a 1962 Spanish version entitled Dulcinea (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1961-70; F2.1240); and a 1972 American version entitled Man of La Mancha, directed by Arthur Hiller and starring Peter O'Toole.
