Videodisc release of the 1939 motion picture.
Based upon the opera by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan by arrangement with Rupert D'Oyly Carte.
Booklet ([17] p.) contains an essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien.
Distributed by Janus Films.
Synopsis partially derived from the Gilbert and Sullivan Archive.
Special features include new video interviews with director Mike Leigh and Mikado scholars Josephine Lee and Ralph MacPhail, Jr., short silent film promoting the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company's 1926 stage performance of The Mikado, deleted scene with Ko-Ko's "I've got a little list" song, excerpts from 1939 radio broadcasts of the stage productions The Swing Mikado and The Hot Mikado.
Decor, Vertès ; cinematographer, William V. Skall ; cameraman, Bernard Knowles ; editors, Philip Charlot, Gene Milford.
Kenny Baker, Martyn Green, Sydney Granville, John Barclay, Gregory Stroud, Jean Colin, Constance Willis, Elizabeth Paynter, Kathleen Naylor; London Symphony Orchestra; the Chorus of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.
Blu-ray Disc; region A; uncompressed monaural soundtrack; full screen (aspect ratio 1.33:1); newly remastered digital transfer.
Requires Blu-ray player.
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
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