Mack the Knife

1989

Comedy / Crime / Musical / Romance

Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 50% · 5 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 50% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.6/10 10 438 438

london, england gangster musical satire based on play or musical 19th century

Plot summary

In 19th century London, a young girl falls for a womanizing criminal and they decide to wed. Her family strongly disapproves so her father, 'the king of thieves', gets the gangster arrested.

Director

Menahem Golan Photo
Menahem Golan

Top cast

Julie Walters Photo
Julie Walters as Mrs. Peachum
Bill Nighy Photo
Bill Nighy as Tiger Brown
Richard Harris Photo
Richard Harris as Mr. Peachum
Clive Mantle Photo
Clive Mantle as Johnny Ladder
480p.BluRay
1.05 GB
720*480
English 2.0
PG-13
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
2 hr 0 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R T 3 / 10

I'm so disappointed, this is one of my

I'm so disappointed, this is one of my favorite musicals and the movie just doesn't work! The London setting looks like the set from The Muppet Christmas Carol (in fact Jenny kind of looks like a Muppet with that hairdo), and there's this uneasy blend of theatricality and realism that just makes me want to yell, "Make up your MIND!" The scenes are chopped up within an inch of their lives, we don't get to know the characters, yet we want to know them because they seem to live in a fully realized world, but we just get generic ideas of characters--it's like they took this show and MTVed it up or something. Very sad.
Reviewed by R T 10 / 10

Surprisingingly,I liked it a lot! The early Berlin

Surprisingingly,I liked it a lot! The early Berlin recordings of Threepenny are still my Dave,and I like the storyline of the Pabst film version better,but this movie is extremely entertaining,and this version of the music is invigorating. Sure,the over the top Broadway style seems a bit silly at first,but it really is a thrilling film to watch. The vast majority of Threepenny interpretations I find unlistenable ( it should not be performed as a LITERAL opera,in my opinion) but I get a kick out of this. Wish it were on dvd, and wish it had English subtitles,however!
Reviewed by R T 4 / 10

The most exciting thing about this is the

The most exciting thing about this is the fact that it exists at all - an adaptation of "The Threepenny Opera" from the director of "The Apple" starring Raul Julia and Roger Daltrey?
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