The Mikado (1939)

19391h 31mdir. Victor SchertzingerUnited Kingdommusical filmromance film

With Kenny Baker, Martyn Green, Sydney Granville, Gregory Stroud, John Barclay, Jean Colin, Elizabeth Nickell-Lean

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.

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