📜 Overview:
Brent Carver stars as the swashbuckling Pirate King in the famous Stratford Festival's rollicking production of the Gilbert & Sullivan classic that pits British bobbles against unlikely pirates on the Cornish coast. Sullivan regarded this operetta - a hit ever since its first production in New York in 1879 - as the best comedy he composed. He even said of his collaborator, "The libretto is ingenious, clever, wonderfully fun in parts and sometimes brilliant in dialogue - beautifully written for music, as is all Gilbert does." Indeed, audiences will find the music every bit a match for the lyrics, with the genius of the score lying in its parody of grand opera. Filmed in 1985 at the world-famous Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario.
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📆 Date Released:
1985-06-21
⌚ Running Time:
124 mins
⭐ Vote Average:
6.0
Beloved Cast
Frederic
Jeff Hyslop
The Pirate King
Brent Carver
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Caralyn Tomlin
Maj. Gen. Stanley
Douglas Chamberlain
Ruth
Pat Galloway
Samuel
Jim White
Sergeant of Police
Stephen Beamish
Kate
Karen Skidmore
Edith
Karen Wood
Isabel
Alison Grant
Blue Stocking
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