Man of La Mancha

…in 1968; and a 1972 film version directed by Arthur Hiller and starring Peter O’Toole, Sophia Loren, and James Coco. Another notable film adaptation was The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018), a loose retelling of Cervantes’s novel by the director Terry Gilliam, whose attempts to make the film over…

…of successes ended, however, with Man of La Mancha (1972), a widely panned adaptation of the stage blockbuster.