The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan
6.9
1953
1 hr 49 min
Drama
, Music
The career of W. S. Gilbert, a barrister turned comic librettist, and Arthur Sullivan, a composer turned against his will to light music, who together wrote fifteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim.
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- Cast：
- Robert Morley , Maurice Evans , Eileen Herlie , Peter Finch , Martyn Green , Dinah Sheridan , Isabel Dean
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I love this movie so much
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Strong and Moving!
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good back-story, and good acting
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The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
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