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
MacHeath / Producer

Hugh Griffith
The Beggar

George Rose
1st Turnkey

Stuart Burge
1st Prisoner

Cyril Conway
2nd Prisoner

Gerald Lawson
3rd Prisoner

Dorothy Tutin
Polly Peachum

George Devine
Peachum

Mary Clare
Mrs. Peachum

Edward Pryor
Filch

Athene Seyler
Mrs. Trapes

Stanley Holloway
Mr. Lockit

Daphne Anderson
Lucy Lockit

Eric Pohlmann
Inn Keeper

Yvonne Furneaux
Jenny Diver

Kenneth Williams
Jack the Pot Boy

Sandra Dorne
Sukey Tawdry

Laurence Naismith
Matt of the Mint

Max Brent
A Drunkard

Mercy Haystead
Dolly Trull

Patricia Smith
CastingDirector

Patricia Raine
Mrs. Slammekin

Jocelyn James
Molly Brazen

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

Denis Cannan
John, the Footman / Writer

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

Peter Brook
Director

Guy Green
Director of Photography

Eric Goodhead
Associate Producer
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.
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