Matsukos is a confident man. A clever man, He knows the dice he is holding are as loaded as a fly in an ouzo bottle. Just one more toss and the money he’s yearned for will be his. Provided, of course, he can grab the cash and run like hell fro the door. Anthony Quinn stars as Matsukos in A Dream of Kings, a powerful and touching drama set in Chicago’s vibrant Greek-American community. Quinn (a double Academy Award winner for Viva Zapata! And Lust for Life) again creates the kind of larger-than-life persona he seems born to play: a proud, earthy, ever-hopeful giant of a man, a character very much like his unforgettable stage and screen Zorba. Determined to take his ailing son with him to Greece, Matsukos would move Heaven and Earth to secure the travel money, even risk the hard-earned respect and love he is won as a community counselor. But that money will eventually come to Matsukos in an unexpected way. An impeccable cast-including Irene Papas (Quinn’s Zorba the Greek screen co-stat) as Matsukos’ fiery wife, renowned character actor Sam Levene as his loyal friend an Inger Stevens as a lonely widow reawakened to life’s possibilities – help makes Matsukos’ world as real as your own neighborhood. Filmed on location and pulsing with life’s everyday grandeur under the direction of veteran Daniel Mann (Come Back, Little Sheba, The Rose Tattoo), A Dream of Kings is wise, richly-portrayed and like its title, a drama of regal dimensions.
1969
Color
111 min.

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