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Henry V (1989) More at IMDbPro »

• The first soldier to sing in the Agincourt battle's aftermath is none other than Patrick Doyle, who composed the score for the movie.
  
  
• The film was shot entirely in sequence.
  
  
• Contains a flashback scene to ACT 1, Scene 2: of Shakespeare's "Henry IV, part 1", where Jack Falstaff proclaims "Do not thou, when thou art King, hang a thief." This flashback line is instead given to Bardolph, to make it more poignant when Henry hangs him.
  
  
• The famous London costume house Angels & Bermans provided most of the costumes for the film, just as they had done 45 years earlier for the Laurence Olivier version The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France (1944).
  
  
• In this version, Branagh has Montjoy, the French herald, bring in the reports of the dead. In the play, this is done by an English herald. This action highlights the increasing civility towards King Henry that is shown in Montjoy and the French nobles and princes alike.
  
  
• Ian McKellen turned down the role of the King of France.
  
  
• Contains a flashback scene to (a paraphrase of) Act 2, scene 4 of Shakespeare's play Henry IV, Part 1, in which Falstaff jokingly tells Prince Hal (later to become King Henry V) that when he is king, he may stop socializing with all their other friends, but he shouldn't banish Falstaff himself from his company: "banish plump Jack, and banish all the world."
  
  
• Paul Scofield and Ian Holm would appear together again the very next year in _Hamlet (1990)(I)_. Their roles; as the Ghost and Polonius, respectively. These roles would be played in director Kenneth Branagh's version by cast members Brian Blessed and Richard Briers.
  
  
• For the french version of the film Gérard Depardieu dubbed Kenneth Branagh.
  
  
• The first time of 9 films featuring Richard Briers directed by (and also starring) Kenneth Branagh.
  
  

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