Fiction
DVD
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PUBLISHED
©2011
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1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
ISBN/ISSN
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Criterion collection #559
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The legendary Gilbert and Sullivan troupe, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, joined forces with Hollywood for this 1939 Technicolor version of the fabled comic opera, the first complete work by the famed duo to be adapted for the screen, directed by musician and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Victor Schertzinger. The result is a lavish cinematic retelling of the British political satire set in exotic Japan
Videodisc release of the 1939 motion picture
Special features: New video interviews with director Mike Leigh and Mikado scholars Josephine Lee and Ralph MacPhail, Jr. ; short silent film promoting the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company's 1926 stage performace of The Mikado ; deleted scene with Ko-Ko's "I've got a little list" song ; excerpts from 1939 radio broadcasts of the stage productions The Swing Mikado and The Hot Mikado ; booklet featuring an essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien
Martyn Green, Sydney Granville, Kenny Baker ; The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
DVD, fullscreen, mono
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing