The Great Mr. Handel

The Great Mr. Handel
Directed byNorman Walker
Written by
Produced byJames B. Sloan
Starring
Cinematography
Edited bySam Simmonds
Music by
Production
company
G.H.W. Productions
Distributed byGeneral Film Distributors
Release date
  • 9 November 1942 (1942-11-09)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Great Mr. Handel is a 1942 British Technicolor historical film directed by Norman Walker and starring Wilfrid Lawson, Elizabeth Allan and Malcolm Keen.[1] The film is a 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]

Plot

Cast

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

  1. ^ "The Great Mr. Handel (1942)". Archived from the original on 4 November 2016.
  2. ^ "The Great Mr. Handel (1942) - Norman Walker | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie".
  3. ^ Macnab p.52

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.