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The Great Mr Handel

Name: The Great Mr Handel
Genre: Music, Drama
Released: 1942-11-09
Duration: 89 min
Rating: 6.6
Cast: Wilfrid Lawson, Elizabeth Allan, Malcolm Keen, Michael Shepley, Max Kirby

The Life - Tragedy and Triumphs and the Glorious Music of the Illustrious Brought to the Screen

1942 · 1h 29m · 6.6 on TMDB

Music Drama

This classic film reveals how the great composer Georg Friedrich Handel rose above the personal anguish and difficulties in his life to create the sublime musical composition, The Messiah.

Cast

Wilfrid Lawson
George Frideric Handel
Elizabeth Allan
Mrs. Cibber
Malcolm Keen
Lord Chesterfield
Michael Shepley
Sir Charles Marsham

Max Kirby

Frederick, Prince of Wales

Hay Petrie

Phineas

Morris Harvey

John Heidegger

A.E. Matthews

Charles Jennens

Frederick Cooper

Pooley

Andrew Leigh

Captain Coram

Robert Atkins

H.F. Maltby

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Production

Independent Productions G.H.W. Productions Ltd.J. Arthur Rank Organisation

Directed by

Norman Walker

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Released: November 9, 1942

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