TY  - ADVS
AU  - Baker,Kenny
AU  - Barclay,John
AU  - Colin,Jean
AU  - D'Oyly Carte,Rupert
AU  - Gilbert,W.S.
AU  - Gilbert,W.S.
AU  - Granville,Sydney
AU  - Green,Martyn
AU  - Naylor,Kathleen
AU  - Nickell-Lean,Elizabeth
AU  - Schertzinger,Victor
AU  - Skall,W.V.
AU  - Stroud,Gregory
AU  - Sullivan,Arthur
AU  - Sullivan,Arthur
AU  - Toye,Geoffrey
AU  - Vertès,Marcel
AU  - Willis,Constance
ED  - Criterion Collection (Firm)
ED  - D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus.
ED  - General Film Distributors.
ED  - Janus Films.
ED  - London Symphony Orchestra.
TI  - The Mikado
T2  - The Criterion collection
SN  - 160465399X
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Irvington, NY
PB  - Criterion Collection
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Japan
KW  - Drama
KW  - Princes
KW  - Feature films
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Film adaptations
KW  - Video recordings for the hearing impaired
N1  - Originally produced as a motion picture in 1939; Special features: Interviews: Mike Leigh (18 min.); Scholars Josephine Lee and Ralph MacPhail, Jr. (29 min.); 1926 D'Oyly Carte promo [b&w silent film] (4 min.); Deleted scene (3 min.); Audio feature: 1939 radio broadcast excerpts from "The swing Mikado" (4 min.) and "The hot Mikado" (8 min.); Booklet includes the essay "Celluloid Savoy" by Geoffrey O'Brien; Synopsis partially derived from the Gilbert and Sullivan Archive; Prologue -- "The sun and I" -- "A wand'ring minstrel" -- The Lord High Executioner -- "Three little maids" -- "To Ko-Ko plighted" -- The substitute -- Wedding day -- "Here's a how-de-do" -- "A more humane Mikado" -- "The criminal cried" -- A dead man -- "Willow, tit willow" -- Finale -- Color bars; Decor, Vertès ; cameraman, Bernard Knowles ; technicolor photographer, William V. Skall ; editors, Philip Charlot, Gene Milford ; art director, Ralph Brinton; Kenny Baker (Nanki-Poo), Martyn Green (Ko-Ko), Sydney Granville (Pooh-Bah), John Barclay (The Mikado), Gregory Stroud (Pish-Tush), Jean Colin (Yum-Yum), Constance Willis (Katisha), Elizabeth Paynter (Pitti-Sing), Kathleen Naylor (Peep-Bo); the London Symphony Orchestra and the Chorus of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company
N2  - 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. Nanki-Poo, son of the Mikado of Japan, fled his father's imperial court to escape marriage with Katisha, an elderly lady. Now, disguised as a traveling musician, he meets and falls in love with Yum-Yum, the young ward of Ko-Ko, a cheap tailor in the town of Titipu. Yum-Yum, however, is already betrothed to her guardian, and Nanki-Poo is in despair
ER  -