The film was made by the Rank Organisation at Denham Studios, using Technicolor. After a private screening, the company head J. Arthur Rank criticised its lack of glamorous appeal. The film was not a box office success on its release.[3]
great, handel, 1942, british, technicolor, historical, film, directed, norman, walker, starring, wilfrid, lawson, elizabeth, allan, malcolm, keen, film, biopic, 18th, century, german, british, composer, georg, friedrich, händel, focusing, particular, years, le. The Great Mr Handel is a 1942 British Technicolor historical film directed by Norman Walker and starring Wilfrid Lawson Elizabeth Allan and Malcolm Keen 1 The film is a biopic of the 18th century German British composer Georg Friedrich Handel focusing in particular on the years leading up to his 1741 oratorio Messiah 2 The Great Mr HandelDirected byNorman WalkerWritten byLawrence du Garde PeachGerald ElliottVictor MacLureProduced byJames B SloanStarringWilfrid LawsonElizabeth AllanMalcolm KeenMichael ShepleyCinematographyJack CardiffClaude Friese GreeneEdited bySam SimmondsMusic byGeorge Frideric HandelErnest IrvingProductioncompanyG H W ProductionsDistributed byGeneral Film DistributorsRelease date9 November 1942Running time98 minutesCountryUnited KingdomLanguageEnglish Contents 1 Plot 2 Cast 3 Production and release 4 References 5 Bibliography 6 External linksPlot editThis article needs a plot summary Please add one in your own words December 2023 Learn how and when to remove this message Cast editWilfrid Lawson as George Frideric Handel Elizabeth Allan as Mrs Cibber Malcolm Keen as Lord Chesterfield Michael Shepley as Sir Charles Marsham Max Kirby as Frederick Prince of Wales Hay Petrie as Phineas Morris Harvey as John Heidegger A E Matthews as Charles Jennens Frederick Cooper as Pooley Andrew Leigh as Captain CoramProduction and release editThe film was made by the Rank Organisation at Denham Studios using Technicolor After a private screening the company head J Arthur Rank criticised its lack of glamorous appeal The film was not a box office success on its release 3 References edit The Great Mr Handel 1942 Archived from the original on 4 November 2016 The Great Mr Handel 1942 Norman Walker Synopsis Characteristics Moods Themes and Related AllMovie Macnab p 52Bibliography editHarper Sue Picturing the Past The Rise and Fall of the British Costume Film British Film Institute 1994 Macnab Geoffrey J Arthur Rank and the British Film Industry Routledge 1994 Murphy Robert Realism and Tinsel Cinema and Society in Britain 1939 1949 Routledge 1989 External links editThe Great Mr Handel at IMDb nbsp nbsp This article related to a British film of the 1940s is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte nbsp This article about a historic musical film is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title The Great Mr Handel amp oldid 1191803307, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
