The Beggar's Opera (1953) | |
| Director(s) | Peter Brook |
| Producer(s) | Laurence Olivier, Herbert Wilcox |
| Top Genres | Crime, Historical, Musical |
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The Beggar's Opera (1953) was a Crime - Historical Film directed by Peter Brook and produced by Laurence Olivier and Herbert Wilcox.
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The Beggar:
What's an opera if everyone is dead in it?
Captain MacHeath: Ah-hah! I love a free-hearted wench!
The Beggar: You're never Captain MacHeath, sir!
Captain MacHeath: Never Captain MacHeath, sir? At my mother's breast I was Captain MacHeath, sir!
The Beggar: I would rather not think so! You're not at all as I imagined. No... no... no. I've overwritten you. My captain is higher by two or three inches.
Captain MacHeath: Hmmm. Wll, sir, thanks to you I shall be higher this time tomorrow by the height of a hangman's card.
The Beggar: No, Captain, you'd never do. There is more of you in two bars of my opera than there is in your own body.
Captain MacHeath: Well, I'm sorry for it.
The Beggar: [Disappointed] There's no arguing with reality.
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Captain MacHeath: Ah-hah! I love a free-hearted wench!
The Beggar: You're never Captain MacHeath, sir!
Captain MacHeath: Never Captain MacHeath, sir? At my mother's breast I was Captain MacHeath, sir!
The Beggar: I would rather not think so! You're not at all as I imagined. No... no... no. I've overwritten you. My captain is higher by two or three inches.
Captain MacHeath: Hmmm. Wll, sir, thanks to you I shall be higher this time tomorrow by the height of a hangman's card.
The Beggar: No, Captain, you'd never do. There is more of you in two bars of my opera than there is in your own body.
Captain MacHeath: Well, I'm sorry for it.
The Beggar: [Disappointed] There's no arguing with reality.
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Facts about
In early 1953, it was inaccurately announced that Audrey Hepburn would star opposite Laurence Olivier in this production.
Kenneth Williams in his biography 'Just Williams' claimed he was horrified to find that they had over-dubbed his voice and feared what people would say, and so was relieved when the film was pulled after just one week.
A sequel entitled "Polly" was written by Gay in 1729, with Dolly and MacHeath as West Indian pirates, but was considered too controversial and banned for 50 years.
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Kenneth Williams in his biography 'Just Williams' claimed he was horrified to find that they had over-dubbed his voice and feared what people would say, and so was relieved when the film was pulled after just one week.
A sequel entitled "Polly" was written by Gay in 1729, with Dolly and MacHeath as West Indian pirates, but was considered too controversial and banned for 50 years.
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