The score here by Joe Darion and Mitch Leigh is one of the all-time Broadway bests (it includes the hit song The Impossible Dream), and provides a super-emotive film musical based on Don Quixote, whose high spots all survive Arthur Hiller's flat direction. In the lead is Peter O'Toole, playing both author Miguel de Cervantes and his creation, the eccentric Spanish knight Don Quixote. Under the Spanish Inquisition, Cervantes finds himself in prison and persecuted by his fellow inmates. So he tells the quirky tale of Quixote in order to appease and amuse them... Also in a dual role, as Dulcinea and Aldonza, is Sophia Loren, while Sancho Panza is played by portly character player James Coco. O'Toole and Loren sing with fervour, although they have a little help on the high notes from other sources.

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