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Director Sidney Gilliat’s 1953 The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan [The Great Gilbert and Sullivan] is very jolly musical biopic entertainment, low on story, high on lovely operetta excerpts, charmingly sung and staged, attractively played […]
Director Wilford Leach’s 1983 comedy musical The Pirates of Penzance is the welcome, ultra-cheerful, uber-energetic film version of the bright, vivacious Broadway and London revival (by producer Joseph Papp) of a souped -up version of […]
The 1963 British musical The Cool Mikado is Gilbert and Sullivan according to Michael Winner, which includes space for comedy gods Frankie Howerd and Tommy Cooper. Kevin Scott plays Hank Mikado. His father, American judge […]
What’s this? Writer-director Mike Leigh, of Secrets & Lies fame, not making a film that’s full of biting social comment? Surely some mistake? But no. Leigh had long nurtured the idea of making a film about […]
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