Category: 39
All Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Release Year: 1999
Country: UK
Runtime: 160
Rating: (0)
Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese
Director: Mike Leigh
Sound: Dolby Digital
Taglines:

  • The egos. The battles. The words. The music. The women. The scandals.
  • Gilbert & Sullivan & So Much More


    • Writing by: Mike Leigh – written by

    Produced by: Simon Channing Williams – producer
    Georgina Lowe – associate producer

    Cast: Allan Corduner – Sir Arthur Sullivan
    Dexter Fletcher – Louis
    Sukie Smith – Clothilde
    Roger Heathcott – Banton
    Wendy Nottingham – Helen Lenoir
    Stefan Bednarczyk – Frank Cellier
    Geoffrey Hutchings – Armourer
    Timothy Spall – Richard Temple (The Mikado)
    Francis Lee – Butt
    William Neenan – Cook
    Adam Searle – Shrimp

    Music: Del Castillo
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    Plot Outline: After Gilbert and Sullivan's latest play is critically panned, the frustrated team threatens to disband until they are inspired to do their masterpiece, “The Mikado.”
    Plot: After their production “Princess Ida” meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which opens the way to one of their greatest successes.

    Movie Quotes: Gilbert: Madam, I had rather spend an afternoon in a Turkish bath with my mother than visit the dratted dentist.


    Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
    Executive in Charge of Beer…Mike “Flash” Savignano

    Goofs: We know about 7 goofs. Here comes one of them:
    Continuity: Length of Sullivan's cigarette and ash during their lengthy discussion

    Trivia: There are 12 entries in the trivia list – like these:

    • As Sir Arthur Sullivan and his mistress Fanny Ronalds casually discuss aborting their baby, the incidental music is a passage from Gilbert and Sullivan's “Iolanthe.” The lyric which goes with the music is, “Plead for my boy. He dies.”
    • The tower structure on the backdrop of the Mikado set is a painting of the Pagoda at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, a few miles away from Richmond Theatre where the scenes were filmed.
    • W.S. Gilbert's quip about a prostitute dying of consumption in a garret refers to Verdi's opera “La Traviata.”