Word: tearsheet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...iconic images which crowd the film: the old King's breath freezing in the chill sunlight of his vast hall, Hotspur's (Norman Rodway) peripatetic motion caught by a camera tracking in tight close-up, the gross Falstaff beside the cruelly emaciated Justice Shallow (Alan Webb), Doll Tearsheet (Jeanne Moreau) demonstrating how a tender and accomplished whore might satisfy an impossibly fat old patron. The Battle of Shrewsbury is simply the finest, truest, ugliest war footage ever shot and edited for a dramatic movie. Welles fills Falstaff with motifs to create visual unities: the vast castle wall which dominates shot...
...dollars, he shot the film in Spain with Spanish extras. The corner cutting shows in nearly every scene. Dubbing has made Shakespeare's words fit badly in the mouths of the supporting players and sometimes of the principals (Sir John Gielgud as Henry IV, Jeanne Moreau as Doll Tearsheet). The background of Avila sits oddly with the Elizabethan drama. By having Sir Ralph Richardson narrate .he film with quotations from Holin-shed's Chronicles, Welles evidently loped to sew his fragmentary film together; instead, he has exposed its ?patches...
...Boar's-Head Tavern, Mistress Quickly (Jan Miner), in an orange and yellow-green costume, sports an appropriately fiery head of red hair, but is otherwise forgettable. The tart-tongued tart Doll Tearsheet (Alix Elias), dark-haired and rouge-cheeked, has only her low neckline to recommend her; the monotonous and whining voice with which she delivers all her lines is painful beyond belief...
...such scruples for Christina Paolozzi Bellin, who made a great Doll Tearsheet in black and white crepe with a diaphanous midriff designed by John Kloss. She kept wishing she were nuder. "You can't even tell I'm naked," wailed the girl who made her fame by being scratched from the Social Register four years ago for posing nude from the waist up in Harper's Bazaar. And how did Christina feel about representing Shakespeare's most notorious trollop? "It's fun to play a character you'd be least likely...
...fabricate a medieval cobbled-street market, a walled village, or a 12th century Romanesque castle: all were within kilometers of his set. Which left most of his rigid $1,000,000 budget for casting, and he could hardly have made it pay better, signing on Jeanne Moreau as Dolly Tearsheet, Sir John Gielgud as Henry IV, and even Margaret Rutherford as Mrs. Quickly. One other area where Welles didn't cut down: gluttony, which left him hospitalized after he gobbled up a middle-sized lamb and washed down four liters of hot wine...