This classic film reveals how the great composer Georg Friedrich Handel rose above the personal anguish and difficulties in his life to create the sublime musical composition, The Messiah.
Cast
Wilfrid Lawson
George Frideric Handel
Elizabeth Allan
Mrs. Cibber
Malcolm Keen
Lord Chesterfield
Michael Shepley
Sir Charles Marsham
Max Kirby
Frederick, Prince of Wales
Hay Petrie
Phineas
Morris Harvey
John Heidegger
A.E. Matthews
Charles Jennens
Frederick Cooper
Pooley
Andrew Leigh
Captain Coram
Robert Atkins
Unknown
H.F. Maltby
Unknown
Ivan Samson
Unknown
Charles Groves
Unknown
Alfred Sangster
Unknown
D.J. Williams
Leader of performance wreckers
Michael Hunt
The Kytch Boys
Alan Wren
The Kytch Boys
Amy Dalby
Unknown
Trefor Jones
Singer
Alfred Harris
Unknown
Dorothy Vernon
Unknown
Charles Doe
Unknown
Frank Atkinson
Permobble
Leonard Sharp
Unknown
Judith Nelmes
Unknown
Jean Stanley
Unknown
Victor MacLure
Unknown
Hyma Beckley
Man Buying Oranges
Maureen Chamberlain
Child
Toni Gable
Lady
Kenneth Griffith
Unknown
Martita Hunt
Chorister
Gladys Ripley
Mrs. Cibber (singing voice)
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