1942 film
The Great Mr. Handel Directed by Norman Walker Written by Produced by James B. Sloan Starring Cinematography Edited by Sam Simmonds Music by Production
G.H.W. Productions
Distributed by General Film Distributors Release date
9 November 1942 (1942-11-09 ) Running time
98 minutes Country United Kingdom Language English
The Great Mr. Handel Technicolor historical film directed by Norman Walker and starring Wilfrid Lawson , Elizabeth Allan and Malcolm Keen .[ 1] biopic of the 18th-century German-British composer Georg Friedrich Händel , focusing in particular on the years leading up to his 1741 oratorio Messiah [ 2]
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Production and release
The film was made by the Rank Organisation at Denham Studios , using Technicolor . After a private screening, the company head J. Arthur Rank criticised its lack of glamorous appeal. The film was not a box office success on its release.[ 3]
References
Bibliography
Harper, Sue. Picturing the Past: The Rise and Fall of the British Costume Film . British Film Institute, 1994.
Macnab, Geoffrey. J. Arthur Rank and the British Film Industry . Routledge, 1994.
Murphy, Robert. Realism and Tinsel: Cinema and Society in Britain, 1939-1949 . Routledge, 1989.
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