The Great Mr Handel

6.6 1942 89 min
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.

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Director
Norman Walker

Cast

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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
Ivan Samson
Charles Groves
Alfred Sangster
D.J. Williams Leader of performance wreckers
Michael Hunt The Kytch Boys
Alan Wren The Kytch Boys

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