The Pirates of Penzance (movie)
- User score: 6
- Production country: Canada
- Producer: Norman Campbell , Brian Macdonald
- Production companies: CBC, Stratford Festival
- Genre: Comedy, Family, Music
- Release date: 6/21/1985
- Run time: 124 min.
Movie description
Brent Carver stars as the swashbuckling Pirate King in the famous Stratford Festival's rollicking production of the Gilbert & Sullivan classic that pits British bobbles against unlikely pirates on the Cornish coast. Sullivan regarded this operetta - a hit ever since its first production in New York in 1879 - as the best comedy he composed. He even said of his collaborator, "The libretto is ingenious, clever, wonderfully fun in parts and sometimes brilliant in dialogue - beautifully written for music, as is all Gilbert does." Indeed, audiences will find the music every bit a match for the lyrics, with the genius of the score lying in its parody of grand opera. Filmed in 1985 at the world-famous Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario.
