The Great Mr Handel (1942)

6.6/10 89 min Music Drama

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.

Cast

Wilfrid Lawson

George Frideric Handel

Elizabeth Allan

Mrs. Cibber

Malcolm Keen

Lord Chesterfield

Michael Shepley

Sir Charles Marsham

Hay Petrie

Phineas

Morris Harvey

John Heidegger

A.E. Matthews

Charles Jennens

Robert Atkins

Ivan Samson

Charles Groves

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