The Great Mr Handel
The Life - Tragedy and Triumphs and the Glorious Music of the Illustrious Brought to the Screen
6.6
4 votes
November 9, 1942
1h 29m
Overview
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 MarshamMax Kirby
Frederick, Prince of Wales
Hay Petrie
Phineas
Morris Harvey
John Heidegger
A.E. Matthews
Charles JennensFrederick Cooper
PooleyAndrew Leigh
Captain Coram
Robert Atkins
H.F. Maltby
Ivan Samson
Charles Groves
Alfred Sangster
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