The Beggar's Opera
- IMDb link: 0045547
- IMDb rating: 6.1 (476 votes) Search
- Genres: Crime, History, Musical
- Director: Peter Brook, Laurence Olivier, Stuart Burge
- Cast: Hugh Griffith, George Rose and others
- Release date: 5 Oct 1953
- Release year: 1953
- Runtime: 94 minutes
- Country: United Kingdom
- Keywords: 1720s, 18th century, highwayman, opera, beggar, reference to william shakespeare, prostitute, decolletage, reprieve, social satire
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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.
Authentic rendering of John Gay's eighteenth century musical, filmed in Technicolor, about Captain MacHeath, a highwayman, and his love for too many beautiful women. Betrayed by Jenny and Sukey, two of his bygone lovers, and temporarily freed by two others, MacHeath is arrested and condemned to death. While waiting to be hanged, the Captain is entertained by a musical beggar, who has written an opera of which the highwayman is the hero.
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