24 August 1953 History, Crime, Music 94 mins
Adaptation of John Gay's 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffith as the Beggar.
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Laurence Olivier as MacHeath
Hugh Griffith as The Beggar
George Rose as 1st Turnkey
Stuart Burge as 1st Prisoner
Cyril Conway as 2nd Prisoner
Gerald Lawson as 3rd Prisoner
Dorothy Tutin as Polly Peachum
George Devine as Peachum
Mary Clare as Mrs. Peachum
Edward Pryor as Filch
Athene Seyler as Mrs. Trapes
Stanley Holloway as Mr. Lockit
Daphne Anderson as Lucy Lockit
Eric Pohlmann as Inn Keeper
Yvonne Furneaux as Jenny Diver
Kenneth Williams as Jack the Pot Boy
Peter Brook Director
Guy Green Director of Photography
Eric Goodhead Associate Producer
Arthur Bliss Original Music Composer
Herbert Wilcox Producer
Laurence Olivier Producer
Christopher Fry Writer
Denis Cannan Writer
Johann Christoph Pepusch Songs
Wally Fairweather Assistant Camera
Reginald Beck Editor
Georges Wakhévitch Production Design
William C. Andrews Production Design
Georges Wakhévitch Costume Design
John Gay Theatre Play
United Kingdom 09 June 1953
United States 24 August 1953
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