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The Beggar's Opera on Video – 1953
About this release
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.
- Release info
- Filmed: 1953 — Released: 1953
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