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The Mikado [videorecording (DVD)].

Criterion Collection, 2011.

Criterion collection ; 559.

Video Difference legacy collection.

Alternate title:

Gilbert & Sullivan [videorecording (DVD)] : The Mikado

[videorecording (DVD)].

1 videodisc (91 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Based on Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera of the same name.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1939.

Special features (Criterion Collection): New video interviews with Topsy-Turvy director Mike Leigh and Mikado scholars Josephine Lee and Ralph MacPhail Jr. ; short silent film promoting the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company's 1926 Stage Performance of The Mikado ; deleted scene with Ko-Ko's I've got a little list song ; excerpts from 1939 Radio Broadcasts of the stage productions The swing Mikado and The hot Mikado; PLUS: a booklet featuring an essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien.

Full screen (1.33:1) aspect ratio.

English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Wesley Ruggles Productions Ltd. ; written by W.S. Gilbert ; composed by Arthur Sullivan ; Producer, Geoffrey Toye ; directed by Victor Schertzinger.

Kenny Baker, Jean Colin, Martyn Green and Sydney Granville with John Barclay, Gregory Stroud, Constance Willis, Elizabeth Paynter and Kathleen Naylor.

"The legendary Gilbert And Sullivan troupe the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company joined forces with Hollywood for this 1939 Technicolor version of the fabled comic opera, the first complete work by the famed duo to be adapted for the screen, directed by musician and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Victor Schertzinger (One Night Of Love, Road To Singapore). The result is a lavish cinematic retelling of the British political satire set in exotic Japan, with such enduringly popular numbers as 'A Wandering Minstrel I' and 'Three Little Maids from School Are We,' and featuring performances by American singer Kenny Baker as well as a host of renowned D'Oyly Carte actors, including Martyn Green and Sydney Granville."--Container (Criterion Collection ed.)

Filmed operettas.

Sullivan, Arthur, Sir, 1842-1900. Mikado.

Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), 1836-1911.

Schertzinger, Victor.

Baker, Kenny, 1912-

Colin, Jean, 1905-

Green, Martyn, 1899-1975.

Granville, Sydney.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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