The Beggar’s Opera.
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✎ Suggest a correctionIn the 1700s, a beggar is tossed into London's Newgate jail along with a pile of papers. The beggar boasts to the other prisoners that his opera, unlike others of the day, is about a real person, the dashing highwayman Captain Macheath. He is scheduled to be executed the next morning, but the beggar agrees and yells for a reprieve.
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© Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.; 4Nov54; LP4108.
Complete catalog record
THE BEGGAR’S OPERA. British Lion Studio Co., London. Released in the U. S. by Warner Bros. Pictures, 1954. 94 min., sd., color, 35mm. Technicolor. Based on the play of the same title by John Gay. © Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.; 4Nov54; LP4108.
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- 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record, copyright
- Wikidata · Q3204574 ↗ — country
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