The Mikado (1939)

Directed by

Victor Schertzinger

Genre

comedy film, musical film, romance film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

G

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 32 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A comic opera set in a fictional Japanese town where a young man in disguise as a wandering musician hopes to marry his beloved. The local lord, a tailor sentenced to death, tries to avoid execution by finding someone to behead instead.

whimsicalfast-pacedplayfulbrightromanticcheerfultheatricalmusical

What happens

The Mikado is a 1939 British musical comedy film based on Gilbert and Sullivan's 1885 comic opera The Mikado. Directed by [[ Victor Schertzinger]] and shot in Technicolor, the film stars Martyn Green as Ko-Ko, Sydney Granville as Pooh-Bah, the American singer Kenny Baker as Nanki-Poo and Jean Colin as Yum-Yum. In addition to Green and Granville, many of the other leads and choristers, as well as the film's conductor and adapter, Geoffrey Toye, were or had been members of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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