“The Beggar’s Opera” (British Lion, 1953) starring Laurence Olivier. Ad on the back cover of the British magazine “Film Review,” Vol. 3, No. 10, (Oct. 1953).
When the composer of an opera about a swashbuckling, wenching highwayman meets his hero’s real-life counterpart, he’s disappointed with his lack of dash. This film version of John Gay’s 1728 ballad opera is directed by Peter Brook and stars Laurence Olivier, Dorothy Tutin, Stanley Holloway and others. Olivier and Holloway do their own singing in the film, but Dorothy Tutin and several others were dubbed.
Scene from the movie: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU6p3Ubq42U&list=PLzY8m1u5A-E...
“The Beggar’s Opera” (British Lion, 1953) starring Laurence Olivier. Ad on the back cover of the British magazine “Film Review,” Vol. 3, No. 10, (Oct. 1953).
When the composer of an opera about a swashbuckling, wenching highwayman meets his hero’s real-life counterpart, he’s disappointed with his lack of dash. This film version of John Gay’s 1728 ballad opera is directed by Peter Brook and stars Laurence Olivier, Dorothy Tutin, Stanley Holloway and others. Olivier and Holloway do their own singing in the film, but Dorothy Tutin and several others were dubbed.
Scene from the movie: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU6p3Ubq42U&list=PLzY8m1u5A-E...