The Beggar's Opera (1953)
August 24, 1953Release Date
The Beggar's Opera (1953)
August 24, 1953Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Laurence Olivier
Captain MacHeath
Hugh Griffith
The Beggar
George Rose
1st Turnkey
Stuart Burge
1st Prisoner
Cyril Conway
2nd Prisoner
Gerald Lawson
3rd Prisoner
Dorothy Tutin
Polly Peachum
Edward Pryor
Filch
George Devine
Peachum
Athene Seyler
Mrs. Trapes
Mary Clare
Mrs. Peachum
Peter Brook
Director
Stanley Holloway
Mr. Lockit
John Gay
Writer
Daphne Anderson
Lucy Lockit
Eric Pohlmann
Inn Keeper
Denis Cannan
Writer
Yvonne Furneaux
Jenny Diver
Christopher Fry
Writer
Kenneth Williams
Jack the Pot Boy
Sandra Dorne
Sukey Tawdry
Herbert Wilcox
Producer
Arthur Bliss
Composer
Laurence Naismith
Matt of the Mint
Guy Green
Cinematographer
Max Brent
A Drunkard
Reginald Beck
Editor
Mercy Haystead
Dolly Trull
Patricia Smith
CastingDirector
Patricia Raine
Mrs. Slammekin
Jocelyn James
Molly Brazen
Georges Wakhévitch
ProductionDesigner
Isabel George
Mrs. Vixen
Helen Christie
Betty Doxey
John Kidd
2nd Turnkey
Herbert C. Walton
3rd Turnkey
Eugene Leahy
4th Turnkey
Edgar Norfolk
5th Turnkey
Oliver Hunter
2nd Chairman
Madge Brindley
Gin Seller
Felix Felton
Governor
Margot Grahame
The Actress
Tamba Allen
Negro Page
Terence Greenidge
Chaplain
Billy Wells
Hangman
Adele Leigh
Singing voice
Jennifer Vyvyan
Singing voice
Edith Coats
Singing voice
Joan Cross
Singing voice
John Cameron
Singer
Bruce Boyce
Singing voice
Alanna Boyce
Urchin
John Baker
2nd Chairman
Eric Goodhead
Associate Producer
Johann Christoph Pepusch
Songs
Wally Fairweather
Assistant Camera
Media.
Details.
Release DateAugust 24, 1953
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 34m
Content RatingNR
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The Beggar's Opera is a 1953 British historical musical film, a Technicolor adaptation of John Gay's 1728 ballad opera of the same name. The film, directed by Peter Brook in his feature film debut, stars Laurence Olivier (in his sole musical), Hugh Griffith, Dorothy Tutin, Stanley Holloway, Daphne Anderson and Athene Seyler. Olivier and Holloway provide their own singing, but Tutin and others were dubbed.
With additional dialogue and lyrics by Christopher Fry, the film expands on some elements in the opera, such as giving Mrs Trapes a larger role and adding dramatic action sequences to Macheath's escape. The framing device is also changed: the Beggar is himself a prisoner in Newgate with the real Macheath, who escapes at the end under cover of the confusion created when the Beggar decides that his fictional Macheath should be reprieved.