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The Mikado (1939 film)

The Mikado
Criterion Mikado Cover.jpg
Cover art for the Criterion release
Directed by Victor Schertzinger
Produced by Geoffrey Toye
Written by W.S. Gilbert
Based on The Mikado
by W.S. Gilbert
Arthur Sullivan
Starring Kenny Baker
Martyn Green
Sydney Granville
John Barclay
Music by Arthur Sullivan
Cinematography William V. Skall
Edited by Philip Charlot
Gene Milford
Distributed by General Film Distributors LTD
United States:
Universal Pictures
Release date
  • 12 January 1939 (1939-01-12) (London premiere)
  • 1 May 1939 (1939-05-01) (US)
Running time
90 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English

The Mikado is a 1939 British musical comedy film based on Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera of the same name. Shot in Technicolor, the film stars Martyn Green as Ko-Ko, Sydney Granville as Pooh-Bah, the American singer Kenny Baker as Nanki-Poo, and Jean Colin as Yum-Yum. Many of the other leads and choristers were or had been members of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.

The music was conducted by Geoffrey Toye, a former D'Oyly Carte music director, who was also the producer and was credited with the adaptation, which involved a number of cuts, additions and re-ordered scenes. Victor Schertzinger directed, and William V. Skall received an Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography. Art direction and costume designs were by Marcel Vertès. The orchestra (and the musicians depicted in the film) consisted of 40 members of the London Symphony Orchestra.

The Mikado premiered in London on 12 January 1939 before opening in the United States on 1 May. A decade later, on 23 July 1949, the film was re-released in New York City.



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