The Beggar's Opera (film)
1953 film by Peter Brook / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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Directed by | Peter Brook |
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Based on | The Beggar's Opera by John Gay |
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Cinematography | Guy Green |
Edited by | Reginald Beck |
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Distributed by | British Lion Films (worldwide) Warner Bros. (US) |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | £500,000[1] or £379,697[2] |
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.