Man of La Mancha

From the opening sequence, Spaniards mocking their masters, a masked prisoner is Peter O'Toole, here playing the author Cervantes, supported by manservant James Coco, from Alberto Grimaldi's 1972 production of the hit Broadway musical, Man Of La Mancha.

Fully into their fictional roles for the first time, Peter O'Toole (as Don Quixote) and James Coco (as Sancho Panza) in their defining assault on a windmill, in Man Of La Mancha, 1972, directed by Arthur Hiller.

Sophia Loren in her first scene as "Aldonza," the "serving wench," hard to imagine another actress doing better, with It's All The Same by Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion, her own vocal, in Alberto Grimaldi's production of Man Of La Mancha, 1972.

Peter O'Toole "dreams the impossible dream" as the Man of La Mancha (1972), a musical version of Don Quixote.