![]() ![]() And while we appreciate that the principals are using their own voices, some of these voices are a little weak. The singing for example, has obviously been post- synced. ![]() The opportunity has also been taken to dub David Hatton, Louise Gold and Teresa Codling.ĬOMMENT: One of those films whose joys and many felicities are slightly offset by a few irritating defects which could easily have been corrected. The original Broadway cast is intact, save for "Ruth", here enacted and sung by Angela Lansbury. NOTES: Based on the 1879 Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, this is a movie record of Joseph Papp's 1982 Broadway revival, filmed in England. A Pressman Film, photographed in Technicolor and Panavision at Shepperton Studios, England. Reviewed by JohnHowardReid 8 / 10 Queen Victoria would not be amused!Ī Joseph Papp Production for Universal-International. A highlight is the song and dance, "A Policeman's Lot is Not a Happy One".-Reid Gagle Perhaps the situation can be rectified by his old nurse, Ruth (Dame Angela Lansbury), who made a dreadful blunder years before. Yet his vocation is an impediment to their union. Frederic (Rex Smith) has fallen in love with sweet innocent Mabel Stanley (Linda Ronstadt). This movie is an adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operetta of the same name, with parts of other of their operettas stirred in.
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