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The Beggar's Opera (1953) was a Crime - Historical Film directed by Peter Brook and produced by Laurence Olivier and Herbert Wilcox.

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Captain MacHeath: Ah-hah! I love a free-hearted wench!
The Beggar: You're never Captain MacHeath, sir!
Captain MacHeath: Never Captain MacHeath, sir? At my mother's breast I was Captain MacHeath, sir!
The Beggar: I would rather not think so! You're not at all as I imagined. No... no... no. I've overwritten you. My captain is higher by two or three inches.
Captain MacHeath: Hmmm. Wll, sir, thanks to you I shall be higher this time tomorrow by the height of a hangman's card.
The Beggar: No, Captain, you'd never do. There is more of you in two bars of my opera than there is in your own body.
Captain MacHeath: Well, I'm sorry for it.
The Beggar: [Disappointed] There's no arguing with reality.
Captain MacHeath: [Hearing a woman singing] Women!... I love the sex!... and a man who loves money might as well be contented with one guinea... as I with one woman.
Captain MacHeath: Dolly Trull!
Dolly Trull: Dear Captain, I never thought you'd have the imudence to remember me.
Captain MacHeath: Kiss me, you slut!
[They kiss]
Captain MacHeath: Are you as amorous as ever? I bid you're always so taken up with stealing hearts you don't allow yourself time to steal anything else.
The Beggar: What's an opera if everyone is dead in it?
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The Beggar's Opera Facts
Kenneth Williams in his biography 'Just Williams' claimed he was horrified to find that they had over-dubbed his voice and feared what people would say, and so was relieved when the film was pulled after just one week.
A sequel entitled "Polly" was written by Gay in 1729, with Dolly and MacHeath as West Indian pirates, but was considered too controversial and banned for 50 years.
The genesis of this 1728 opera came from Jonathan Swift, who wrote to Alexander Pope in 1716 asking "...what think you, of a Newgate pastoral among the thieves and whores there?" Gay, who was a friend of both, took up the idea.
A J. Arthur Rank British screen adaptation, to star Deanna Durbin, and to be produced by Michael Balcon, was briefly considered in 1947.
The character of Sukey Tawdry is mentioned in the famous Kurt Weill song, "Mack the Knife".
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