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The Great Mr Handel

6.619421h 29mMovieMusicDrama

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.

DirectorNorman Walker
ProducerJames B. Sloan

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Cast · Directed by Norman Walker

WLWilfrid Lawson
Wilfrid Lawson
George Frideric Handel
EAElizabeth Allan
Elizabeth Allan
Mrs. Cibber
MKMalcolm Keen
Malcolm Keen
Lord Chesterfield
MSMichael Shepley
Michael Shepley
Sir Charles Marsham
HPHay Petrie
Hay Petrie
Phineas
MHMorris Harvey
Morris Harvey
John Heidegger
AMA.E. Matthews
A.E. Matthews
Charles Jennens
FC
Frederick Cooper
Pooley
AL
Andrew Leigh
Captain Coram
RARobert Atkins
Robert Atkins
HM
H.F. Maltby
ISIvan Samson
Ivan Samson

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