The Great Mr Handel

1942 "The Life - Tragedy and Triumphs and the Glorious Music of the Illustrious Brought to the Screen"

The Great Mr Handel

6.8 | 1h29m | en | 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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6.8 | 1h29m | en | Drama , Music

Synopsis

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 , Elizabeth Allan , Malcolm Keen

Director

Jack Cardiff

Producted By

Independent Productions , G.H.W. Productions Ltd.

Cast

Wilfrid Lawson

as Handel

[1967] The Viking Queen [1966] The Hunchback of Notre Dame [1966] The Wrong Box [1959] Tread Softly Stranger [1955] The Prisoner [1944] Fanny by Gaslight [1943] The Night Has Eyes [1942] The Great Mr Handel [1941] Tower of Terror

Elizabeth Allan

as Mrs. Cibber

[1958] Grip of the Strangler [1955] The Brain Machine [1953] Twice Upon a Time [1942] The Great Mr Handel [1940] Saloon Bar [1939] Inquest [1937] Slave Ship [1936] A Woman Rebels [1936] Camille

Malcolm Keen

as Lord Chesterfield

[1960] Operation Amsterdam [1957] Nicholas Nickleby [1957] Fortune Is a Woman [1956] A Murder is Announced [1942] The Great Mr Handel [1934] Dangerous Ground [1929] The Manxman [1928] The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog