The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan
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1hr
49mins
Directed by
Sidney Gilliat,
Starring
Robert Morley,
Maurice Evans,
Eileen Herlie,
Peter Finch
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The career of W. S. Gilbert, a barrister turned comic librettist, and Arthur Sullivan, a composer turned against his will to light music, who together wrote fifteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim.