Gilbert & Sullivan - Ruddigore / Michell, Price, Trevelyan, Opera World
by Barrie Gavin
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Actor: Donald Adams (II), John Treleaven (II), Keith Michell, Paul Hudson (II), Vincent PriceDirector: Barrie Gavin
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Classical, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 116 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-10-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Acorn Media
Movie Reviews of Gilbert & Sullivan - Ruddigore / Michell, Price, Trevelyan, Opera World
Movie Review: It's Price's show.
Summary: 3 Stars
A-many years ago, with young and overly ambitious ideas of enlisting the late, great Vincent Price to play Sir Roderic Murgatroyd, I approached him after a talk he gave at Indiana University. His interested and gracious decline was almost as good as an acceptance. Imagine my astonished gratification to see him later as -- not Sir Roderic -- but Sir Despard.
Without Price, I would give this particular version of my favorite operetta about half a star. Act I is downright embarrassing, at least before Sir D's entrance. Price's smooth-as-cream Despard Murgatroyd, however, rates a solid five stars. Vincent Price collectors really shouldn't miss this one.
Phyllis Ann Karr
Summary of Gilbert & Sullivan - Ruddigore / Michell, Price, Trevelyan, Opera World
Featuring the london symphony orchestra and a host of international stars including vincent price joel gray peter marshall keith mitchell frankie howerd and peter allen. Filmed in england and created especially for tv they have delighted fans on pbs and the bbc. Studio: Acorn Media Release Date: 01/20/2004 Run time: 96 minutesRuddigore, a pseudo-melodramatic ghost story, became most famous for the moment when the portraits of Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd's ancestors spring to life and demand that he uphold the family curse of performing a crime every day. Less flawlessly balanced between score and libretto than some of Gilbert and Sullivan's works, it's a pleasurable trifle set to gorgeous music. Since this is the only version widely available, we're lucky it's so good. Vincent Price is wonderfully typecast as Despard Murgatroyd, the brother who hands over the title and the curse when Ruthven gives up hiding from his evil fate. Price can't sing--and he has a good 15 years on Keith Michell, who plays his older brother--but it really doesn't matter. He carries off his performance with supreme deftness. Unlike many G&S productions, this one is admirably free of mugging; the actors don't condescend to their material. The staging is as beautifully absurd as the plot. The chorus of professional bridesmaids are an indistinguishable unit out of a fractured fairy tale, sleeping in one bed and showing up in the middle of other people's scenes; and during a lovely but dramatically static madrigal, the cast plays croquet. Part of the Opera World series of 12 Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, produced in the early 1980s, Ruddigore is among the best in an uneven project. --David Olivenbaum
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