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Director
  
Menahem Golan

Screenplay
  
Menahem Golan

Country
  
Netherlands

5.6/10
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Genre
  
Comedy, Crime, Musical

Music director
  
Kurt Weill

Duration
  

Language
  
English

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Writer
  
Menahem Golan (screenplay)

Release date
  
November 17, 1989 (1989-11-17) (Chicago) February 2, 1990 (1990-02-02) (United States)

Based on
  
The Threepenny Opera  by Bertold Brecht and Kurt Weill

Cast
  
Richard Harris
(Mr. Peachum),
Raúl Juliá
(MacHeath),
Roger Daltrey
(Street Singer),
Mark Northover
(Jimmy Jewels),
Julia Migenes
(Jenny Diver),
Julie Walters
(Mrs. Peachum)

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,
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,
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Tagline
  
Smooth. Sharp. Deadly.

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Mack the Knife is a 1989 New Zealand romantic comedy musical film written and directed by Menahem Golan and starring Raúl Juliá, Richard Harris, Julia Migenes, Roger Daltrey and Julie Walters. It is a film adaptation of the 1928 Brecht/Weill musical The Threepenny Opera.

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In 19th century London, young Polly Peachum falls for the famous womanizing criminal Macheath and they decide to get married, but because of her family's disapproval, her father ("the king of thieves") has MacHeath arrested.

Cast

  • Raúl Juliá as Macheath
  • Richard Harris as Mr. Peachum
  • Julia Migenes as Jenny Diver
  • Roger Daltrey as The Street Singer
  • Julie Walters as Mrs. Peachum
  • Bill Nighy as Tiger Brown
  • Rachel Robertson as Polly Peachum
  • Clive Revill as Money Matthew
  • Erin Donovan as Lucy Brown
  • Louise Plowright as Dolly
  • Elizabeth Seal as Molly
  • Chrissie Kendall as Betty
  • Mark Northover as Jimmy Jewels

    • Production

    Juliá reprises the role of Macheath which won him a Tony nomination for a 1976 revival on Broadway. The film shows obvious signs of last minute editing, including several musical numbers that appear on the soundtrack album but are not in the final cut.

    Home media

    The film has never been released on DVD and as of April 2012, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has yet to announce any plans for a DVD release.

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