Product description

The Beggar's Opera [VHS] [1952]

Price: £7.25
RRP: £9.99
Average customer rating: 5.0

Binding : VHS Tape
EAN : 5099990009228
Label : Warner Home Video
Manufacturer : Warner Home Video
Publisher : Warner Home Video
Release date : 1999-07-12
Title : The Beggar's Opera [VHS] [1952]
Actor : Array
Audience rating : Universal, suitable for all
Format : PAL
Languages : Array
Number of items : 1
Original release date : 1952-01-01
Running time : 90
Studio : Warner Home Video
Theatrical releaseDate : 1952
Number of discs : 1

Customer reviews

review by: date: 2004-07-21 rating:

A superb performance
Mixed with outside scenes and studio sets this version has some charming performances, most notably from Olivier and Tutin on the cusp of a real life affair. The music is excellent, paced and lively at the correct moments. The acting is a joy. The thin baritone of Olivier does not do the score justice, but he embues it with enough heart felt pathos so that his vocal shortcomings can be easily overlooked. The rest mime their way through admirably and the vocal responsibilities are unsurpassed in any rendition I have yet heard. brThe dark gravitas of the final hanging scene is truely moving, as the inevitable reprieve is sprung.

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