The Beggar's Opera on Video - 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.

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Starring:
Laurence Olivier as Captain MacHeath

Hugh Griffith as The Beggar

George Rose as 1st Turnkey

Stuart Burge as 1st Prisoner

Cyril Conway as 2nd Prisoner

Gerald Lawson as 3rd Prisoner

Dorothy Tutin as Polly Peachum

George Devine as Peachum

Mary Clare as Mrs. Peachum

Edward Pryor as Filch

Athene Seyler as Mrs. Trapes

Stanley Holloway as Mr. Lockit

Daphne Anderson as Lucy Lockit

Eric Pohlmann as Inn Keeper

Yvonne Furneaux as Jenny Diver

Kenneth Williams as Jack the Pot Boy

Sandra Dorne as Sukey Tawdrey

Laurence Naismith as Matt of the Mint

Studio: Warner Bros.

Filmed: 1953 - Released: 1953

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