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Santa Monica, CA : Distributed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment, [2004]
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1 videodisc (approximately 2 hr., 9 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1972
Feature program: Man of La mancha -- Special features -- Overture montage music with visual highlights (photo montage with overture music) -- Theatrical trailer
Jailed during the Spanish Inquisition for offending the church, author Miguel de Cervantes is forced to act out one of his manuscripts for the entertainment of fellow inmates. Cervantes delivers a rapturous performance as the legendary Don Quixote, the chivalrous knight whose choice to see life as it should be, not as it is, takes him into battles with an imaginary foe and into romance with the beautiful Dulcinea
Based on the musical play "Man of La Mancha" written by Dale Wasserman, which was loosely based on the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Special features: Overture montage : music with visual highlights (photo montage with overture music); Theatrical trailer
Music by Mitch Leigh ; lyrics by Joe Darion ; associate producer, Saul Chaplin ; edited by Robert C. Jones ; sets and costumes by Luciano Damiani ; music adapted and conducted by Laurence Rosenthal ; choreography by Gillian Lynne ; production manager, Luciano Piperno ; executive producer, Alberto Grimaldi ; photography, Guiseppe Rotunno
Peter O'Toole, Sophia Loren, James Coco, Harry Andrews, John Castle, Brian Blessed, Ian Richardson, Julie Gregg, Rosalie Crutchley, Gino Conforti, Marne Maitland
MPAA rating: PG
DVD; NTSC; region 1; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation enhanced for 16x9 televisions; Dolby digital 5.1 surround (English) or stereo. surround (Spanish)
In English or dubbed Spanish with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned in English