Movie · EN · 1942

The Great Mr Handel

MusicDrama89 min

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

Max Kirby

Frederick, Prince of Wales

Hay Petrie

Phineas

Morris Harvey

John Heidegger

A.E. Matthews

Charles Jennens

Frederick Cooper

Pooley

Andrew Leigh

Captain Coram

Robert Atkins

H.F. Maltby

Ivan Samson

Charles Groves

Alfred Sangster

D.J. Williams

Leader of performance wreckers