Word: pepusch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although his voice is passable in the heroic ballads, it falters seriously in the love songs. However, Arthur Bliss, who amended the original Pepusch score, has deftly arranged the music so that Olivier's limitations are a minor factor. Only one of the other principles--Stanley Halloway as the jailer--sing his own part. Alternately snickering and sneering, his display suggests the humorous charm of Martyn Green...
...adapted by Dennis Canaan and Christopher Fry, the film is a spirited horse opera, a kind of galloping, Hogarthian western, set to Sir Arthur Bliss's arrangement of the John Pepusch score...