Man of La Mancha

Director: Arthur Hiller

1972 / 132min / 35mm

Coco takes on the role that’s any stocky character actor’s dream, earning a Golden Globe nomination for his embodiment of the loyal, lunkheaded squire Sancho Panza to Peter O’Toole’s half-mad knight errant idealist Don Quixote in Hiller’s film version of the 1965, Cervantes-inspired Broadway smash, with tenor Simon Gilbert providing tone-deaf O’Toole’s singing voice on standards like “The Impossible Dream.” “Beautifully acted… Coco [turns Sancho Panza] into a sort of wisecracking, literal-minded 16th-century Tonto.”—New York Times