Don Quixote Orson Welles

in mid-1950s, welles began work on don quixote, commission cbs television. welles expanded film feature length, developing screenplay take quixote , sancho panza modern age. filming stopped death of francisco reiguera, actor playing quixote, in 1969. orson welles continued editing film 1970s. @ time of death, film remained largely collection of footage in various states of editing. project , more importantly welles s conception of project changed radically on time. version of film created available fragments in 1992 , released negative reception.

a version oja kodar supervised, jess franco, assistant director during production, released in 2008 mixed reactions.

frederick muller — film editor trial, chimes @ midnight , cbs special orson bag fortunate work on editing 3 reels of original, unadulterated version — asked opinion in 2013 journalist of time out, reply felt if released without image re-editing, addition of ad hoc sound , music, have been rather successful.