The Great Mr Handel (1942)
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.
Director: Norman Walker
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Wilfrid Lawson as George Frideric Handel |
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Elizabeth Allan as Mrs. Cibber |
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Malcolm Keen as Lord Chesterfield |
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Michael Shepley as Sir Charles Marsham |
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Max Kirby as Frederick, Prince of Wales |
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Hay Petrie as Phineas |
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Morris Harvey as John Heidegger |
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A.E. Matthews as Charles Jennens |
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Frederick Cooper as Pooley |
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Andrew Leigh as Captain Coram |
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Robert Atkins as |
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H.F. Maltby as |
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Ivan Samson as |
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Charles Groves as |
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Alfred Sangster as |
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D.J. Williams as Leader of performance wreckers |
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Michael Hunt as The Kytch Boys |
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Alan Wren as The Kytch Boys |
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Amy Dalby as |
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Trefor Jones as Singer |
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Alfred Harris as |
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Dorothy Vernon as |
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Charles Doe as |
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Frank Atkinson as Permobble |
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Leonard Sharp as |
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Judith Nelmes as |
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Jean Stanley as |
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Victor MacLure as |
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Hyma Beckley as Man Buying Oranges |
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Maureen Chamberlain as Child |
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Toni Gable as Lady |
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Kenneth Griffith as |
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Martita Hunt as Chorister |
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Gladys Ripley as Mrs. Cibber (singing voice) |
| Crew | Jack Cardiff | Cinematography |
| Directing | Norman Walker | Director |
| Crew | Claude Friese-Greene | Cinematography |
| Production | James B. Sloan | Producer |
| Art | Sidney Gausden | Art Direction |
| Editing | Sam Simmonds | Editor |
| Sound | John Cook | Sound Recordist |