The Great Mr Handel
DirectorNorman Walker
“The Life - Tragedy and Triumphs and the Glorious Music of the Illustrious Brought to the Screen”
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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Cast
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
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